We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Scale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The high performance of the solution is its most valuable aspect. If you compare it to other storage solutions, it's much better."
"The profile share is a valuable feature."
"Its great servicing high availability. That is what it is used for."
"Technical support has been very helpful. They provide us with pretty good solutions that we can implement moving forward."
"We can have multiple systems within the same file system."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is incredibly scalable and stable."
"We are using it for monitoring all of our storage."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"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."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"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."
"Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation."
"The main issue that we have now is with the encryption. They want to use more metrics in encryption, which is not working very well."
"Integration with other vendors is not available."
"I believe there is no graphic user interface, so they should include it."
"They should probably simply the Red Hat implementation portion. This portion was not as straightforward as I would like it to be."
"We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization."
"The biggest problem is that it is not able to provide block storage."
"It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while IBM Spectrum Scale is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 10 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Scale is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Scale writes "A stable solution with valuable profile-sharing features". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas IBM Spectrum Scale is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Portworx Enterprise, DDN IME, VMware vSAN and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. IBM Spectrum Scale report.
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