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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"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 best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"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..."
"This solution came preconfigured. All we needed to do was plug it in and move our VMs."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests."
"High-availability is what I bought it for."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"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."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"CSVs require the storage to be configured through iSCSI, even though the storage is local."
"In the future, it would be nice to be able to migrate from the Windows vSAN to the Linux vSAN without having to do a full restore from backups."
"I would request that the terms and conditions be reviewed and made more acceptable to corporate security so that we could finally turn on the proactive support feature, as it is included with our support agreement."
"Shipping options should be explained in detail and offer more white glove delivery options even if it comes at an additional cost for some SMBs without docks."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"The only issue we have had was the issue of performance, however, that is only due to the fact that we purchased a mix of SSD and regular spindle drives, and restoring databases was slow as it was trying to restore the database using the spindle drives."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
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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), Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail.
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