DataCore SANsymphony SDS Pros and Cons
DataCore SANsymphony SDS Pros
The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs.
View full review »DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range.
View full review »DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable.
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Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money.
View full review »The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter.
View full review »Good security with this solution.
View full review »I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product.
View full review »The interface is user-friendly.
View full review »During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime.
View full review »The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production.
View full review »DataCore SANsymphony SDS Cons
Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial.
View full review »The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model.
View full review »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.
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We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API.
View full review »I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue.
View full review »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.
View full review »There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool.
View full review »I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report.
View full review »I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing.
View full review »The alert system could have more features.
View full review »Learn what your peers think about DataCore SANsymphony SDS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2021.
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