We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"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."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Good security with this solution."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"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."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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