We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"It is scalable. When you are buying it, you have to buy a minimum of three nodes. After that, if you want to add more nodes, you can buy can buy them. You can also add-on additional compute and storage."
"First and foremost, I would advise people to purchase this solution mainly for the simplicity of the system. And it's all managed in one place, which is nice compared to Nutanix where you had to administrate multiple places. And, the support now is so good."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"I would like them to include an easier solution to host its own DNS. When they changed to version 6.5, they took out the easy features of letting the rail be its own DNS. You can still trick the system and make the VxRail Manager another one of the rail-required VMs become the DNS, but it's a lot of extra work. I'd like to see it put back into the UI."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 117 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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