We performed a comparison between Azure Stack HCI and DataCore SANsymphony based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The solution has the latest processor."
"In my hybrid cloud setup, there are three features I've found very efficient. The first is software-defined networking. Similar to Azure where you create virtual networks and software load balancing, Azure Stack HCI lets you configure them with a drag-and-drop experience on the on-premises cluster. That's one of the good feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to manage VMs."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Good security with this solution."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"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)."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement. Since I've been working very closely with this product, there are many areas, especially in software-defined networking. We had to improve multiple areas because we depended on the service fabric cluster to manage the software-defined network. That means we're already running a hypervisor inside a VM, and we're managing the control plane of the software-defined network. That's another cluster. So, multiple layers make the complexity more. So, from an operational perspective, it's very difficult to manage."
"We faced multiple problems with the product’s stability."
"The product's initial setup phase can be a bit complex, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"The alert system could have more features."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"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."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
Azure Stack HCI is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews. Azure Stack HCI is rated 8.4, while DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Azure Stack HCI writes "Performs well, provides good features, and has the latest processor". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". Azure Stack HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN and VxRail, whereas DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail.
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