We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 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."DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Good security with this solution."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"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."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray, whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct report.
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