We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"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."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The ease of setting up our DR site with SimpliVity. It was very simple. I did not have to set up a separate storage, server, and networking environments."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The documentation could be better."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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