We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VMware vSAN 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 configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"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 ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"The most important feature to me, in my role, is cost. In the renewal cycle for storage, it was about a 40 percent saving compared to going to an all-flash array, which is what we first looked at doing. Secondly, performance: we need clinical data access in five seconds and need to do everything we can to retain that metric. Thirdly, I was really pleasantly surprised during the data migration across to vSAN, that it happened almost instantly whereas, in the past, migrating from array to array was an arduous and fraught process."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The valuable features of vSAN are that you can get it up and running quickly, you get redundancy built-in, and it's pretty much the perfect solution for a cluster."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"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."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"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."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"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."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Better options would be clustered nodes, or even cloud configuration. There is room for improvement in cloud configuration, we typically do web browsing for management."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE Nimble Storage. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. VMware vSAN report.
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