We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and DataCore SANsymphony 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 is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"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."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"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."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"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."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"The alert system could have more features."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"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."
"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."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. DataCore SANsymphony report.
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