We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and VMware vSAN 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 very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most important feature to me, in my role, is cost. In the renewal cycle for storage, it was about a 40 percent saving compared to going to an all-flash array, which is what we first looked at doing. Secondly, performance: we need clinical data access in five seconds and need to do everything we can to retain that metric. Thirdly, I was really pleasantly surprised during the data migration across to vSAN, that it happened almost instantly whereas, in the past, migrating from array to array was an arduous and fraught process."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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