We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Maxta [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The solution is scalable."
"The program is stable."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"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."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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