We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 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."An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"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."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"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."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"Documentation management could be improved"
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 17 reviews while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Easily scalable with great technical support and very good snapshot capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable software storage solution that offers performance, reliability, and affordability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct report.
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