We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"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."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"It was not expensive at all."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"The cost must be improved."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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