We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Scale Computing HC3 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 fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"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's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The product could use a better control center."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StorPool, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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