We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"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."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Its interface could be better."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
Earn 20 points
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS and StarWind Virtual SAN.
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