We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and ScaleIO [EOL] 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 of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with .
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