We performed a comparison between Maxta Hyperconvergence Software and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"The ease of use is great."
"The ability to have a disaster recovery option for our end-users by being able to use VDI and the vSANs, and the ability to do replication across multiple data centers, are valuable to us."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is the ease of management. VMware vSAN it's a part of VMware ESXi and when you do patching for VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN receives the patches too."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"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 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."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"I think it needs to be more cost-effective. I would also say that even though the capacity is good, there is also room for improvement there. Also, they could improve the security of the system."
"Integration could be better."
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Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is ranked 32nd in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Maxta Hyperconvergence Software is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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