We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"It is a stable solution."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Storage is always available."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"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."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."
"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."
"Level 1 technical support needs improvement."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 35 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "Robust, stable, with good performance, and easy to implement". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with Dell VPLEX, VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. IBM Spectrum Virtualize report.
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