We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It's quite easy to install."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"It is extremely stable."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"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 most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block 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."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The documentation could be better."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"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."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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