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."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd 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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