We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"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."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"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."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"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."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Maxta Hyperconvergence Software 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 Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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