We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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 vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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