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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"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 support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"Storage is always available."
"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."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"It is a very 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)."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"The ease of managing this system."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"This is a great product."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 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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