We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VMware Software Defined Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Storage is always available."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"VMware Software Defined Storage gives higher availability against data corruption."
"This is an easy-to-use product for adding flexibility to your storage solution."
"The single management panel is the main feature that is wonderful for the customer."
"The best part of the solution is that you can actually scale up to a large number of operating systems without additional hardware."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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'd like to see improved hardware compatibility"
"The performance is not as good as some competing products and reporting can be improved."
"VMware Software Defined Storage should include a shared database on a standard version."
"It doesn't have the ability to be deployed on any kind of hardware and network connectors."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while VMware Software Defined Storage is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VMware Software Defined Storage 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 VMware Software Defined Storage writes "A stable solution that can be used for database applications and virtualization for multiple locations". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas VMware Software Defined Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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