We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity 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."A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"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.""
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"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 HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The ease of setting up our DR site with SimpliVity. It was very simple. I did not have to set up a separate storage, server, and networking environments."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The ease of managing this system."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"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."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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