We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"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 most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"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."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Pivot3 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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