We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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)."A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"We also substantially reduced network complexity by eliminating that standalone SAN. That reduced complexity has allowed us to concentrate on improving other areas of our network."
"Their service is top-notch and if a node goes down they immediately are following up with us to make sure that everything is working smoothly."
"The most valuable feature is the high-availability. We have three nodes, and all data will be synched instantly through all the nodes. Even if we had a disaster where two nodes failed, containing dozens of critical machines, almost automatically, all the loads would be run on the remaining node."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"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."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"The only critique I might have is that the support is overseas in Eastern Europe and, on occasion, there has been a language issue. But in general, they're as good as can be..."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"We ran into some issues with going from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to Hyper-V 2019."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"I wish I understood what goes into the StarWind software a little bit better. To me, it's kind of magic the way some of it works. As an IT professional, you don't really want things to be magic. I do wish there was a little more "Here's how it works." There could be more documentation given to administrators..."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Maxta [EOL] 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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