We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"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."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Storage is always available."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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 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)."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily."
"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"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."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Its interface could be better."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"The alert system could have more features."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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