We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"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."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"The hardware footprint is perfect. It fits in our rack perfectly, and we were able to condense a lot of physical servers we had. It has greatly eliminated the excess stuff in our server rack..."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"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."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"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."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"I honestly cannot think of anything else to be improved, as I rarely have to interact with the Starwind product."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"Possible new features could be CSV-level snapshot capability, Veeam integration, and maybe a more straightforward setup. Granted, you don't have to worry about setups with the HCA, but if you want to implement StarWind vSAN in a lab to test it is a tedious setup process."
"It would be nice if it were possible to do the ISCSI setup that you do on Windows directly in the management GUI of StarWind."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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 HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software 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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