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."It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"I can roll out the system in thirty minutes and the customer can work with it."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"I like the new releases that Dell EMC is doing with VMware. They are allowing for flexibility across the hybrid cloud. This allows organizations to use containers and to be able to move into the public cloud, but also not have lock-in. They can come back to the private cloud when they want to, so it's creating a lot of flexibility across the stack."
"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."
"I would recommend VxRail, it works for most of the use cases."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"The solution is really stable."
"The assurance that my systems would not suffer a performance drop no matter where they are is valuable. I do not need any extra hardware."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"It would be an improvement if VxRail could be integrated with some other hypervisors and not just with VMware."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"I would like an easier migration. This way, if a node fails like it did, the data would have been migrated and I would not have had to get up at three in the morning."
"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."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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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