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."You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"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."
"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."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"It is a very stable solution."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"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."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"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."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 53 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE StoreVirtual. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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