We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Scale Computing HC3 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."Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It is extremely stable."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"Storage is always available."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 6th in HCI with 54 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 16th in HCI with 8 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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