We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"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."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"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."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"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 would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"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."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 19th in HCI with 2 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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