We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It is extremely stable."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"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."
"Storage is always available."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"They require more media visibility."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"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."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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