We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Maxta [EOL] 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)."A very flexible solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"The solution is very stable."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"User interface could be improved."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". 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 StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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