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."This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"Good security with this solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"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."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution is scalable."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"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."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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