We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"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)."
"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 synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The management interface of this solution is great."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"They require more media visibility."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"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."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"Some clients find the solution's cost to be too high."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"I feel like the flow chart and the automated processes have some room for improvement. They're nearly there, and the rest is fine. They've improved a lot over the past few years."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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