We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"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."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN.
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