We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN 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."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"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 documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Good security with this solution."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"They require more media visibility."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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 is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, LINBIT SDS, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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