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."The interface is user-friendly."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"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."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It simplifies the management of our entire system."
"Once it is in place, we do not touch it, so it is more stable than other solutions."
"It has never fallen out from under us when we were trying to do a critical push."
"The most valuable features are that the solution is vetted and validated and it's supported end-to-end."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to compute storage and networking. FlexPod is very flexible and innovative. We can design it as we like."
"All-flash storage and low latency I/O enhance performance."
"We got the product and we have a small environment, but it was able to be scalable to when we started to grow."
"It is definitely easier for us to maintain and do build-outs, so it takes a lot less time to set things up for the customer."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"One touch upgrades would be nice."
"I had one problem at the site where I had an aggregate that would not shrink after I had deleted some stuff. It took a few tries to get the right guy on the call. We do have a NetApp SAM with our company, and it really took getting to him to get the solution fixed."
"I would be interested to see more integration with other applications."
"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."
"The integration between both companies, Cisco and NetApp, is very good but it still needs to be enhanced in terms of visibility and observability."
"The upgrades should be improved. We would like to have the ability to do unified upgrades of the whole infrastructure from beginning to end."
"With the UCS X-Series, I would like to see the fabric interconnects in the chassis. Instead of hanging out so the chassis is 7U, you are increasing your footprint to 9U with the fabric enhancer, where some of the competing solutions are 7U and have collapsed that network fabric into the chassis. This is another thing that I would like to see from Cisco, though not really on the NetApp side since that is pretty solid."
"The cost may be high compared to other solutions."
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, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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