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 available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"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 solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
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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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