We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"It is easy to install."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"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."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"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."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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 Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes report.
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