We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found the solution to be very stable."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"It's more intuitive to use as they are moving away from command line into more graphical interfaces, which are somewhat easier to use."
"We can recover data quickly. We are able to failover to remote sites. We can do that within minutes."
"There is a faster release cycle now. Also, they are doing all types of cool stuff in their cloud volumes, replication, and tiering."
"Scalability is good. Now that we have the ability to add more nodes to the cluster, it's better. It allows us to grill our clusters allowing them to be larger and faster, without having to buy a whole new system."
"One of the things I find most valuable is the way they do the Snapshots, taking incrementals at points in time... Often someone will say, "Hey, I deleted this thing yesterday, can you get this back for me?" It's good that we have all those incremental Snapshots at different points in time that we can refer back to, to get them whatever they need."
"With ONTAP, we have peace of mind with double-parity protector RAID systems. Therefore, we can sleep well at the night, not thinking about crashing a RAID, because it's secure."
"It is very easy to manage in terms of system management and GUI management."
"We are saving more disk space which saves us more money."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"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."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I would like more security against the malwares, spyware, and ransomware. I feel like ONTAP is a bit lacking in this area."
"I would like more diagnostic generation. Right now, it's a pain to go into the controller and do a full diagnostic and export."
"I would like it to be more user-friendly. When you open the main dashboard, anyone should be able to know exactly what is going on, even without a tech background. Minimal training should be required."
"I would like to see more integration into the cloud, as we are pushing to do more cloud-based compute. It is just easier to get the storage and everything synced up there and move to the cloud. We want NetApp to keep down the cloud integration path. It still needs some improvement. Overall, there needs to be more cloud integration in all NetApp products."
"Being able to scale out at cost-effective capabilities doesn't compare to some of our other storage solutions, but it is coming along. NetApp ONTAP could improve its scalability."
"I wish tech support would be better. I wish I could talk to somebody more easily and qualified, because this is way it is supposed to be.."
"Technical support is not in person nowadays. We have to wait a long time to get an engineer. Then, most of the time, their engineers are not good enough to understand our problems. While we might not be able to explain the problem well, or they are not able to understand the problem well, their solutions are slow to resolution. The response time for tickets is bad nowadays."
"I would like to see FlexGroup volumes come to parity in terms of software features with Flex volumes. It seems like FlexGroup volumes have massive scalability, but their features set is not the same as Flex volumes, so we are currently unable to use it."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while NetApp ONTAP is ranked 1st in Storage Software with 73 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP writes "The on-ramp for all things Netapp". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, whereas NetApp ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Dell PowerPath, StorONE Storage-as-a-Service and Kodjin FHIR Server. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. NetApp ONTAP report.
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