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Find out what your peers are saying about DataCore SANsymphony SDS vs. HPE StoreVirtual and other solutions. Updated: November 2019. 382,547 professionals have used our research since 2012. |
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The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs. During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime. Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money. DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable. DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range. The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter. I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product. The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production. | It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime. Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI. Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage. |
Cons | |
Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial. I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing. We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API. 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. The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model. 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. There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool. The alert system could have more features. | The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years. Product looks like it is in the end of development. |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage. Make sure you are made aware of the annual subscription cost when purchasing. The cost is at the same level as other storage solutions and it is easy to understand the licensing. The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore. | Information Not Available |
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Views 4,391 Comparisons 1,999 Reviews 22 Average Words per Review 327 Avg. Rating 9.2 | Views 7,383 Comparisons 5,057 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 197 Avg. Rating 8.3 |
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Also Known As | |
DataCore SANsymphony, SANsymphony, DataCore Virtual SAN | HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA |
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DataCore | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
Overview | |
DataCore™ SANsymphony™ enterprise-class Software-defined Storage (SDS) platform provides a high-performance, highly available and agile storage infrastructure with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). | HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future. |
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Sample Customers | |
Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, The Biodesign Institute, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few. | NBrIX, WIND Telecom, Netrics |
Top Industries | |
Government23% Transportation Company15% Non Profit15% Manufacturing Company15% Real Estate/Law Firm24% Software R&D Company15% Government11% Outsourcing Company10% | Healthcare Company14% Hospitality Company9% Government9% Retailer9% Software R&D Company16% Manufacturing Company11% Retailer8% Comms Service Provider8% |
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