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)."This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"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."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"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."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"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."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"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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