We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Maxta [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"It is easy to set up."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, 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". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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