We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell PowerFlex 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."We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Storage is always available."
"It is a very stable solution."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The program is stable."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell PowerFlex report.
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