We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The solution is certainly reliable."
"The stability of our ONTAP system has been awesome over the last four to five years, particularly with the software. The controls have been excellent as well. We recently went through a view of all of our systems and found a number of them had been up, over three years without any sort of reboots or downtime. We have been very happy with the stability of the systems."
"When it accesses regular files, it does so as an NFS workload, which retrieves data quickly."
"We are going the direction of automation in the cloud. It has flexibility and supportability around NetApp solutions and products."
"It's very fast, NetApp is always dependable, so if we have an issue, they're very responsive."
"It's more intuitive to use as they are moving away from command line into more graphical interfaces, which are somewhat easier to use."
"Their SAN storage is great."
"They have very good tech support who always answers our questions and troubleshoots our issues. They're great."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I would like to see more integration of the features with the CIFS and SMB Protocols. We also want integration with iSCSI."
"We are always looking for more security enhancements and ways to continue to provide security encryption, whether it's data in rest or security in transit. We would also like to have more enhanced encryption beyond the regular TLS and 256-bit."
"With NetApp ONTAP, the technology is all there, but its management process needs some simplification."
"The toughest thing that we have right now is a cabling issue. There are so many that you need to connect."
"The older UI is not ideal."
"It should release more cloud-centric products as compared to some of its competitors. We would like it to have the ability to run or manage a solution in the cloud. This would allow us to migrate our data on-premise to off-premise in cloud solutions."
"The GUI of NetApp ONTAP is an area with certain shortcomings that need to be considered for improvement."
"I would like to have deduplication and SSD features in the product."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. NetApp ONTAP report.
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