We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"Scaling is very easy and no limitations are set."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The simplicity when it comes to building your own automation has been excellent."
"Nutanix has several unique capabilities to ensure linear scalability."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"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."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"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 the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"We did have some integration issues."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"This product would be improved if it included a hybrid cloud solution."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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