We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"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."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Good security with this solution."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"This is a great product."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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