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"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"it's easy to scale, it's easy to predict IOP needs, and you can design for low latency using all-flash... Also, for setting up new clusters for VDI quickly, it's nice. You don't have to wait on an order for a storage vendor to ship you a system and help you configure it, you do it all yourself. And the sizing guides are pretty straightforward."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"Adding new nodes and expanding vSAN forward is simple and non-disruptive for a lot of our customers."
"All the features are working great."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"This is a great product."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"The server files are larger than before."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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