We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorPool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The team behind it was very engaged and had the skills and ability to support a service provider."
"The two 10GE networks provide redundancy and increased performance as they serve as two separate networks doubling the throughput and doing multipathing and load balancing. We now have a high performance shared storage system which enables us to run on private cloud. Our previous system used bare-metal hardware, which provided high performance but inflexible management. Now we have best of both worlds, SSD-class performance with flexibility of a private cloud system."
"Creating snapshots within seconds for big disks has helped our different migration projects since it allows us to perform them in a short period of time."
"The speed of the storage solution also allows us to provide service to applications that are very I/O intensive."
"Performance, redundancy, scalability and cost-effectiveness. StorPool delivers superbly in all of these areas."
"With StorPool we were able to build live failover on top of our LXC infrastructure. This allows us both to live-migrate containers between compute nodes without any downtime and, in case of an entire node suffering any type of failure, we can bring all containers back online within a minute on a spare compute node."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"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."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Monitoring and statistics UI is a bit clumsy."
"he only place we feel they could improve is the time it takes to bring new features to production."
"I have personally met with multiple Storpool engineers and spoke about different options and features. There are too many features that we don't know or use yet. My recommendation would be to promote the new features and give users different examples of how they can be used and how we can benefit from them."
"It would be good if, with next releases, StorPool provide a better GUI for monitoring and statistics. This would make our experience even better and complete."
"At times we need to check the disks and do some minor operations. A friendlier user interface would be useful in such cases."
"Live and historical performance statistics would be useful, though my understanding is that this is on the way in a future release."
Earn 20 points
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorPool is ranked 20th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorPool is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorPool writes "Enabled us to increase both our gross margins and performance while also decreasing latency". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StorPool is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, VMware vSAN, LINBIT SDS and StarWind Virtual SAN.
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