We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"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."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"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 solution is constantly evolving."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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