We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VMware Software Defined Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Storage is always available."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
"I'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VMware Software Defined Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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