We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Portworx Enterprise 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."For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"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 most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"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."
"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."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"The documentation could be better."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Portworx Enterprise report.
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