We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The setup is very easy."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". 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 SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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