We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual 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."The interface is user-friendly."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The solution is very stable."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"A company can scale it easily."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"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."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"It is a costly solution."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE StoreVirtual report.
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