We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and ScaleIO [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)."The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"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."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The alert system could have more features."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
Earn 20 points
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with .
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