We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Veritas Access Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Storage is always available."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"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."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"It is a very stable program."
"Overall the solution works well."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"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."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"I would like to see more platforms added."
"The Veritas support for Access Appliance could improve. They are a pioneer in the industry, and they provide an enterprise-level solution. However, when comparing the storage, they can't compete with the NetBackup solution."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Veritas Access Appliance is ranked 23rd in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Veritas Access Appliance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access Appliance writes "Overall functions well, stable, but technical support could improve". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Veritas Access Appliance is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Veritas Access, LINBIT SDS and Portworx Enterprise.
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