We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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 most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"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."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"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)."
"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."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"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."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Its interface could be better."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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 Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes report.
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