We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex 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."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"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 ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The program is stable."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". 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". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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