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."The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"Its interface could be better."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"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."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"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 hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
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, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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