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."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Storage is always available."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The alert system could have more features."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"I have not seen ROI."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
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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