We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN 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."In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"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.""
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"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 central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"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."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veeam Backup & Replication and LINBIT SDS. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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