We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"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."
"Storage is always available."
"Good security with this solution."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"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)."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."
"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"The alert system could have more features."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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