We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"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."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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