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."The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"It is a stable solution."
"Storage is always available."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The solution is scalable."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"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."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"Its performance can be faster."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The product is expensive."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
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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