We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Storage is always available."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"The migration of servers feature makes server rack maintenance easy."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"The main advantage is that it's all in the box, with VMware vCenter Server product."
"vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"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."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"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."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"I would like more integration with the hardware when it comes to disc types and supporting the newer types of storage."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 17 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 13 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Easily scalable with great technical support and very good snapshot capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE Hyper Converged. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. VMware vSAN report.
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