We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual 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."DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Good security with this solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"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 would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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 solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"It is a costly solution."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StarWind Virtual Tape Library. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE StoreVirtual report.
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