We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Maxta [EOL] 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)."The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 53 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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