We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."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."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"The price should be lower."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray 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 Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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