We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Maxta [EOL] 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)."The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"It is a stable solution."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"They require more media visibility."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"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."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"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 main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Maxta [EOL] 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 Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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