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."We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"We no longer need multiple staff members performing small, mundane tasks."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"The support is the most valuable feature. The support has been amazing. It's around the clock. One of our hard disks accidentally ejected without me knowing or being onsite. They called and told me about it before I had a chance to see it myself."
"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."
"Overall, the solution has improved our system's performance. I was concerned about the physical-to-virtual conversion of our database server. It's actually much faster now, as a virtualized host on this Hyper-V cluster."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Most meetings are done via Zoom, and I'm sure you could switch to a text based conversation if needed as they seem like a very accommodating team. It's not something I would worry about if you are a potential client."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"We were slightly disappointed with the hardware footprint. We were led to believe, and all the pre-sales tech information requirements pointed to the fact, that it was coming on Dell hardware. Then it came on bulk servers."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
"The only area that surprised me had to do with the fact that each host runs a StarWind virtual machine used to maintain the health of the vSAN, which individually uses 24GB of memory per host. You should keep this in mind when determining the resources you will need when selecting hardware and components for your specific setup. If I knew that, I would have chosen to add more memory per host to make up for the use."
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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), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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