We performed a comparison between Maxta [EOL] and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"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."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
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Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Maxta [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN and VxRail.
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