We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"It is a stable solution."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"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'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."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The price could be better."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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