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 ROI is great on this product."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"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."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"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."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"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 dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The solution is scalable."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"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."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Its interface could be better."
"The alert system could have more features."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"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."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
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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