We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell PowerPath based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"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 solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The user interface is good."
"The product is very reliable."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Dell PowerPath is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell PowerPath report.
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