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 access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"I think vSAN's stability is good. It's an underlying solution for both on-prem and in the cloud, especially the VMC on AWS stuff too. VMware has been around for a long time, so it's pretty stable."
"The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"I like vSAN because they release features incrementally, every year, and you don't have to upgrade your hardware to get those features. If you bought a traditional SAN, you would have to upgrade your hardware constantly, every three years: You would get it, and it is how it is for three years. But on vSAN, you upgrade when you have to, when your hardware gets old or when you need more capacity. It's great, you get new features constantly."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
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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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