We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It is a stable solution."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Vauable features include the ability to manage our data anywhere, multiple consumption modes, and rapid deployment."
"The most valuable feature is the throughput. You tend to get to your data very quickly. That's why we decided, eventually, to move into NetApp, because of the speed. Also, as a support engineer, this solution is easy to use, compared with SAN storage."
"They always have new solutions for their customers. They also have good integration with other partners like Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle."
"The solution is certainly reliable."
"Deduplication, data protection, and NetApp block are some of the valuable features of the product."
"Their SAN storage is great."
"Today, because NetApp listened to their customers and improved their GUI, we can perform a firmware upgrade within minutes."
"Stability and performance have been great."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"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."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"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."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"We would like to be able to provide feedback immediately after receiving technical support."
"I would like to have deduplication and SSD features in the product."
"If you do the initial setup manually, it is a bit difficult for someone who doesn't know."
"The only thing that they have to improve in NetApp is that they're still relying on padding each node in active/active in CDOT. That has to go away. They should look at the scalability on a platform level. The computer will have that one file system with multiple nodes on it. If even one node fails, any node in that cluster could take over the functionalities. But today, it absolutely relies on that active-active uncoupling it. That needs to be improved in such a way that it would be one namespace. If this node goes down, any node in the cluster should take over and run that environment."
"With our current use case, we will need something faster. E.g., if you have a huge scale, having SSD-based backup is better."
"The technical support hasn't been that great. A couple of times we have had to call support and it took a long time to get somebody on the phone, it took a long time for someone to call us back. That's the only downside, the support."
"I would like to see Synchronize Snap mode in the next release."
"They use a lot of PowerShell for managing things and there are still a few things that you can't do through PowerShell cmdlets that you can do in the native CLI. It would be nice if they got more of those added in."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp ONTAP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. NetApp ONTAP report.
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