We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"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 documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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