We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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)."The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the redundancy and its cost. I used to have a SAN, a Dell EMC EqualLogic. Unfortunately, it was they call an "inverted pyramid of doom." It was two or three hosts, two switches, and one storage array at the very bottom. But the SAN, the storage array at the very bottom, is a single point of failure..."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"StarWind is very resilient and built off of quality vendor hardware."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"The biggest thing we were looking for was redundancy, with both the compute and the storage, so that way we could lose a full node and still keep everything up and running, and not have to worry about it... StarWind was able to provide a solution for what we wanted, - to provide for redundancy."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"The redundancy of two identical nodes that can run alone allows us to have truly "no single point of failure" in our computing and primary storage infrastructure."
"It is the perfect solution for hyper-convergence at a fair price. Our customers have Hyper-V and VMware environments, with Windows servers and Linux."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
"I wish I understood what goes into the StarWind software a little bit better. To me, it's kind of magic the way some of it works. As an IT professional, you don't really want things to be magic. I do wish there was a little more "Here's how it works." There could be more documentation given to administrators..."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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