We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"Good security with this solution."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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