We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Storage is always available."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"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)."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"A company can scale it easily."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"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."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"User interface could be improved."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"It is a costly solution."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Scale Computing HC3, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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