We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"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."
"You can add more boxes and you can have more IOPS available if you want. It's very easy to add new hardware to the cluster."
"The ease of set up is probably the most valuable feature for us."
"The most valuable is the one support. I have a 1-800 number. I call one number rather than figuring out whether it's a network, compute, or storage issue. It is beautiful and works out nicely."
"The flexibility and data deduplication have been the biggest practical applications."
"Our time from customer interest to time of deployment has shrunk a lot."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"It's amazingly scalable. It just works. It can expand to large MetroClusters and keep expanding."
"There are very many features, but from experience, the single point of contact for support has been valuable to our customers."
"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."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language 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."
"The alert system could have more features."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"We would like more security features."
"We would like them to have better features to integrate with the cloud."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"If there were going to be any improvements, they should probably be UI improvements, overall. It can get a little kludgy sometimes when trying to figure out what to do."
"We would like to have a single pane of glass available for it. It is something that the management in the business would like to have."
"I would like to see drag and drop connectivity to Azure and Amazon."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while FlexPod XCS 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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