We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"Reliability and overall uptime are key as we're also hosting client environments in addition to our own."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"The added speed of using standard HDD and SSD meant we could increase what services are stored on the servers without having to have additional servers."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"The low cost of this solution has also made a big difference in our budget, which has been very helpful."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"This is a great product."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"We haven't had to use the ProActive Premium Support feature much yet. But they contacted me one time because there was a glitch on one server, a networking issue... I have not seen the problem since."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
"In the future, it would be nice to be able to migrate from the Windows vSAN to the Linux vSAN without having to do a full restore from backups."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"We have to pay for support, which is high-end support. That can be expensive, at least for us."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail.
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