We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"You can just take out blades and replace them, and you're back up and running in no time."
"We initially started out with siloed clusters and now we've been able to cluster everything together so that we have multiple nodes in our clusters. We have multiples on different data in different data centers. We've able to do replication between data centers. That's been very beneficial for us as we look to derive a mature DR model."
"The most valuable feature is ease of deployment. Once I deploy the chassis and I have the back-end storage, configuring more UCS servers is very quick. I can deploy a new UCS server within minutes."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"All of our main applications run on this solution, and it has done a stellar job."
"The most valuable features are the Fabric Interconnect Manager and the UCS Manager."
"The product is easy to deploy and use."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"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."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"Its interface could be better."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"Cisco support is much slower. Opening cases with Cisco tech is sometimes a bit tedious. The return time for less important calls can be slower. Even Priority 1 calls can sometimes be a bit long and they will have to call me back."
"The last two calls that I have made to NetApp support have been handled too casually. People are too lax, not quite as professional as I would have liked."
"Unified management would be really nice, having one a single pane of glass to manage everything do with the solution."
"I would like them to scale more to rack unit servers instead of blade servers."
"I would be interested to see more integration with other applications."
"There could be room for improvement in terms of offering more flexibility in CBD options."
"Hardware stability needs improvement. We replaced a lot of RAM this past year. We had to replace the complete blade once after extensive troubleshooting. Any given time, we have approximately one blade down within the entire infrastructure, unfortunately."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while FlexPod XCS 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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