We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"Good security with this solution."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"Storage is always available."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It is extremely stable."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"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."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"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."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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