We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"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."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"We are going the direction of automation in the cloud. It has flexibility and supportability around NetApp solutions and products."
"Stability and performance have been great."
"We do not face any glitches or downtime."
"If you lose connectivity, it has one-sided redundant connectivity on the back-end for shelves, which is good."
"We bought it for a couple reasons. One, it took advantage of our existing storage because we could front-end that storage. It also allowed us, through native replication, to set up a DR site, which we're working towards. And three, that DR site, in 2020, is going to the cloud. NetApp has a nice solution for that. And our production in 2022 may actually go to the cloud. So all that is already in place, no additional tools. You can use the same SnapMirror and SnapVault technology to get there."
"It's extremely reliable, very easy to manage. I've been able to reduce the number of people I have managing the storage systems because of the software."
"We use a lot of SnapVault and SnapMirror features for disaster recovery and daily backups to meet SLAs."
"The stability of our ONTAP system has been awesome over the last four to five years, particularly with the software. The controls have been excellent as well. We recently went through a view of all of our systems and found a number of them had been up, over three years without any sort of reboots or downtime. We have been very happy with the stability of the systems."
"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."
"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."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"Going forward, I want to see a simplified deployment and more straightforward recommendations on what is required for it."
"The lack of an API is a big thing for us that needs to be improved. It needs proper API support."
"The only thing I don't like is that firmware upgrades require downtime. It would be beneficial if we could do upgrades without as much downtime."
"The initial installation could've been quite easy, but there was a lot of miscommunications with professional services and there are a lot of details that they didn't quite provide which caused a very complicated installation."
"I would like to see more S3 integration with other vendors, objects, or instruments."
"One of the things that we were looking at being able to do a FlexGroup NFSv4. Right now, 9.4 goes up to NFSv3, but if we could get the NFSv4 solution on a 9.4, or a future release, that would be awesome."
"The older UI is not ideal."
"The price could be lower."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. NetApp ONTAP report.
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