We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Maxta [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"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."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"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."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution has many good features."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The solution is not very stable."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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