We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Storage is always available."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"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."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The performance and small footprint of this solution are its most valuable features. I am able to obtain and use more than 90 percent of the physical hardware capacity."
"It supports the latest technology of NVMe SSD, which is PCIe-based SSD. It has a very good IOPS performance as compared to vSAN. For the same system, I get 1,000 IOPS with vSAN, and with Sunlight, I am able to get almost 10,000 IOPS. In terms of features, it has almost all the features, such as HA and centralized dashboards. It can be managed centrally, and the visibility of the system is very good. They also have very good technical support and customer or partner training."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"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."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"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."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"Its reporting and dashboards need to be improved. It currently has very basic reporting options. It should also be made easier to deploy on Unix operating systems. It is easy to deploy on Windows and Linux, but it is currently not easy to deploy on Unix."
"My recommendation would be to add this technology to Azure, Microsoft Azure so that we can bring it to the market, or deploy it on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Google. It is currently only available on Amazon's public cloud."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sunlight 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 Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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