We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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."The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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)."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"We have found the live migration to be the most valuable feature. It allows us to seamlessly maintain our servers, as well as have peace of mind if something goes wrong."
"The sales process is easy."
"Product functionality and performance are wonderful."
"However, StarWind HCA won us over in two areas: price and support. We were actually able to install an all-flash StarWind HCA for less than other vendors' spinning rust solutions! We were able to roll five years of warranty and support into the purchase price and still save thousands of dollars upfront."
"The presence of built-in storage saved the company from having to purchase a separate storage array and related network equipment."
"I do like that I can manage StarWind with a console running on my local desktop."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"This solution came preconfigured. All we needed to do was plug it in and move our VMs."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"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."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"The only thing my team has recommended improving on is possibly a StarWind-customized GUI to monitor the overall system health, similar to 5nine Manager."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"The monitoring and report software is a bit hit and miss."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
"We struggle a little with capacity management with the StarWind Hyperconverged appliance."
"One area for improvement of the solution is that I had to get Windows, which I really didn't want because of the extra maintenance or overhead, as well as viruses, etc. It's going to take time for them to get their Linux to that point. They already have Linux but it's not as mature and they don't really support it on HCAs. They have it for individuals who want to use it on their servers, but not on HCAs."
"Multi cluster support for their Command Console would be very beneficial. Currently, you can only work with a single cluster at a time. The console is new so I expect much growth in this area in the near future. The other area that could be improved is the tech support locale."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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