We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Scale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share files across different platforms."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"It has been pretty reliable throughout the years. As far as capacity is concerned, it can handle most heavy loads."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"GPFS monitoring is the best feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"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."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
"Maybe it needs integration with HA."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. IBM Spectrum Scale report.
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