We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The install itself is easy as pie."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"It is a stable solution."
"Good security with this solution."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"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."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The biggest benefit of this solution is that If you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"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."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"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 no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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