We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and DataCore SANsymphony 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."This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The implementation process is okay."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"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."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"They require more media visibility."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"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."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. DataCore SANsymphony report.
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