We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"It is extremely stable."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The support is the most valuable feature. The support has been amazing. It's around the clock. One of our hard disks accidentally ejected without me knowing or being onsite. They called and told me about it before I had a chance to see it myself."
"The biggest thing we were looking for was redundancy, with both the compute and the storage, so that way we could lose a full node and still keep everything up and running, and not have to worry about it... StarWind was able to provide a solution for what we wanted, - to provide for redundancy."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"Being able to upgrade machines and software during business operations just by switching nodes has been a huge improvement. We"
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"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."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"A possible thing is perhaps a customer portal to schedule a time with support online via a calendar."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"Shipping options should be explained in detail and offer more white glove delivery options even if it comes at an additional cost for some SMBs without docks."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"There is room for improvement in the setup and installation phase. We had massive problems connecting the StarWind appliances to our network infrastructure. That wasn't necessarily a StarWind problem. I don't know if their business partner in the UK wasn't used to having to deal with the supply of the cabling infrastructure, but that's where the problems started."
"The only thing my team has recommended improving on is possibly a StarWind-customized GUI to monitor the overall system health, similar to 5nine Manager."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software 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 Hyperconvergence Software 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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