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 features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"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"
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"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."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"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."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd 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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