We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"One-click upgrade is valuable because upgrading an environment that is considered a traditional one is something that we never do or are never going to complete. It is very time-consuming for my team. With the one-click upgrade, it is much quicker. There are preparation stages, but it takes less time, so we are also saving time in the daily administration."
"I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The implementation of a VxRail, it's straightforward, but the ongoing utilization, and integration, are where it can start to become difficult if you're not used to doing it."
"The product could support and have more compliance with other vendors."
"It needs faster deployment of security patches."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"I would like better integration with VCF from VMware, which is the Cloud Foundation tool set, so we can easily provision servers very quickly."
"A disadvantage is that the initial first deployment can be complicated."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"Integration could be improved."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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