We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN 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 fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"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."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veeam Backup & Replication and LINBIT SDS. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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