We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Springpath [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)."Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"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)."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"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."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The documentation could be better."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The alert system could have more features."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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