We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"It is stable and scalable."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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