We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"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 very stable solution."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"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 features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"Its interface could be better."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"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."
"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."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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