We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Maxta [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The solution is very stable."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"User interface could be improved."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". 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 StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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