We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Storage is always available."
"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."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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