We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN 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."StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"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."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've 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."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"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."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veeam Backup & Replication and LINBIT SDS. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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