We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and ScaleIO [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)."The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with .
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