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."StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"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."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"The setup was easy to deploy, and management is simplified compared with traditional SAN solutions."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"The StarWind array has greatly improved our workflow internally as it is quite easy to use and provides robust features that allow us to provide anything our clients need quickly and efficiently."
"It is a safe, fast, and cost-effective storage system that improved our systems to have zero downtime."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"We haven't had to use the ProActive Premium Support feature much yet. But they contacted me one time because there was a glitch on one server, a networking issue... I have not seen the problem since."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"The only thing I have run into is that I did want to add more hard drives into the host, so that we could look at doing a RAID 10, and the hard drive prices were pretty expensive... that's pretty nit-picky and I don't think it has anything to do with StarWind itself. I think it's more on whomever they work with for their hardware."
"It would be nice if the software told you a new version was available and prompted you to do the upgrade to keep everything up to date."
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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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