We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"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."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"This is a great product."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"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."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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