We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Pivot3 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 offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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