We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It's quite easy to install."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"Storage is always available."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"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)."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"Its ease of administration is extremely valuable. It allows me to make better use of my time for other tasks instead of maintaining systems through multiple administration consoles."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"Sometimes during the upgrade process of VxRail, we experience errors that have nothing to do with reality and I cannot troubleshoot them without calling Dell and bringing in an engineer to figure it out."
"I would like better integration with VCF from VMware, which is the Cloud Foundation tool set, so we can easily provision servers very quickly."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"You cannot install another operating system such as Microsoft or Hyperflex or Nutanix. We have also had a hardware problem."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"We have some issues, but they are possibly out-of-the-box issues. There was a host that was dead on arrival, and there were some file issues on other hosts. We're currently working actively with Dell to resolve all these issues. Once they are resolved, the product should be stable."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VxRail 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. VxRail report.
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