We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Maxta [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)."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"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."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"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)."
"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."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The single-pane-of-glass VMware interface makes configuration and management easy so you do not need IT specialists."
"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."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"The alert system could have more features."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"A new company took over the product and now the support for Maxta has gone way downhill."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Maxta [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Maxta [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Maxta [EOL] writes "Has the ability to have a single-pane-of-glass using the VMware interface but it needs better support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Maxta [EOL] is most compared with .
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