We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"We are finding that vSAN is a lot more scalable and adaptable, because we can go in with hybrid arrays for our lower-end storage needs or with all-flash versions of vSAN for places where we need more performance, and it's coming in at a lower cost point than an actual traditional array."
"it's easy to scale, it's easy to predict IOP needs, and you can design for low latency using all-flash... Also, for setting up new clusters for VDI quickly, it's nice. You don't have to wait on an order for a storage vendor to ship you a system and help you configure it, you do it all yourself. And the sizing guides are pretty straightforward."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"I would love to see vSAN integrate Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs. I know they're supposed to be working on an elastic tier so that we don't have the issues with destaging from the cache to the capacity. Those are the things that I'm interested in."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 33rd in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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