DataCore SANsymphony vs HPE Hyper Converged comparison

DataCore and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the HCI category. DataCore is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.4, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4. DataCore holds a 2.6% mindshare in HCI, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of DataCore users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

DataCore SANsymphony

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97% willing to recommend

DataCore SANsymphony

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Hyper Converged compete in the enterprise storage solutions category. HPE Hyper Converged often has the upper hand due to its robust features that justify its higher price.

Features: DataCore SANsymphony provides flexibility in hardware choice, easy disk pool management, and continuous data protection. HPE Hyper Converged emphasizes easy deployment, integrated backup solutions, and scalable security features.

Room for Improvement: DataCore SANsymphony could benefit from enhanced technical support, a more user-friendly GUI, and better software integration. HPE Hyper Converged users seek lower pricing, improved data optimization, and enhanced integration with external technologies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DataCore SANsymphony is praised for its responsive technical support during on-premises deployment. HPE Hyper Converged is noted for quick deployment and stable support, although integration issues are occasionally reported.

Pricing and ROI: DataCore SANsymphony offers a predictable and cost-effective solution, though additional hardware costs can be high. Its ROI is strong due to flexibility and high availability. HPE Hyper Converged, while more expensive, provides competitive advantages with integrated solutions and potential operational savings over time.

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DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Hyper Converged

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Ranking in HCI

7th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), Storage Performance (3rd)

HPE Hyper Converged

Ranking in HCI

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of DataCore SANsymphony is 2.6%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Hyper Converged is 3.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

HCI Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	2.6%
HPE Hyper Converged	3.0%
Other	94.4%

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SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

High availability and user-friendliness enhance infrastructure health and redundancy

I would rate technical support from DataCore SANsymphony a 10. Each time I contact the technical support, it's when I don't have a choice because it's very difficult for me on site, and each time, I have good people online who are able to help me solve the problem. Usually, the problems are not very technically difficult, but sometimes they are, and the support team is still there to help us resolve them. The majority of the problems are linked to licensing, so when the license has expired or the number is not correct, they are proactive and change things live, which is very good.

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GosayeErko

System Engineer at BIOS Engineering

Infrastructure management simplifies for clients with integrated interface and enhanced resource utilization

Currently, the HPE HCI is based on the VMware solution, and most clients are skipping VMware because VMware has changed its licensing method. If HPE starts to use its own hypervisor for its HCI solutions, it will be the best solution. We push a different vendor for the backup and replication, so we only use the HCI, then we use Veeam for the backup and replication section.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The support is excellent."

"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."

"It is a very stable solution."

"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."

"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 most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."

"It is a stable solution."

"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."

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"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."

"The hyper-converged system is easy to set up."

"It is a scalable solution."

"No concerns or issues with stability."

"It is a scalable solution."

"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."

"The features of HPE Hyper Converged that are most effective and beneficial are its simplicity as well as its scalability."

"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."

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Cons

"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."

"The graphical interface is not always very stable."

"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."

"In my opinion, there should be improvements in how to get and filter logs."

"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."

"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."

"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."

"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."

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"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."

"Currently, the HPE HCI is based on the VMware solution, and many clients are skipping VMware due to its changed licensing method."

"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."

"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."

"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."

"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."

"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."

"The initial setup of HPE Hyper Converged requires study and a comprehensive understanding of virtualization."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is at the same level as other storage solutions and it is easy to understand the licensing."

"We have licensing costs on a yearly basis. They charge per terabyte, so in terms of cost, it can be very costly. They have three different features, and you have to pay extra for those."

"This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage."

"In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality."

"This product has a good ratio between quality and price. In many cases, it's less expensive to work with DataCore than other storage systems."

"Make sure you are made aware of the annual subscription cost when purchasing."

"DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is very high and should be much cheaper."

"The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore."

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"If I'm comparing with Dell, HPE Hyper Converged is definitely cheaper in my experience."

"It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper."

"It is an expensive solution, however. If they could adjust the pricing, that would be helpful."

"The solutions cost us a lot."

"Pricing with Dell EMC is double the price which I paid for HPE. However, in the end, Dell EMC is double in performance. This is not an apple to apple comparison though, as I have a four node from Dell EMC and a three node."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The entire solution is packaged with all licenses and support."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	18

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?

Before choosing DataCore SANsymphony, I did not evaluate other options.

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What do you like most about DataCore SANsymphony?

The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress).

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What needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?

DataCore SANsymphony can be improved with high availability as it offers synchronous mirroring between physical and separate sites to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. I do not have...

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What do you like most about HPE Hyper Converged?

The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Hyper Converged?

The product is intermediate in price, neither expensive nor cheap. We are talking about an on-premises solution without licensing for years. Currently, licensing is required for VMs and CPU cores. ...

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What needs improvement with HPE Hyper Converged?

The initial setup of HPE Hyper Converged requires study and a comprehensive understanding of virtualization. The second step is to follow instructions step by step, as it can be complex to understa...

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Also Known As

DataCore Virtual SAN

HPE Hyper Converged 380, HPE Hyper Converged 250, HPE Hyper Converged 250 for Microsoft CPS

Overview

Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.

DataCore

HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.

Now, IT can become an internal service provider to end-users by quickly delivering the resources they need for application development and consumption. With HPE Hyper Converged systems companies can operate with cloud efficiency to simplify IT operations with one comprehensive control panel to deploy, monitor, analyze and update – with a single generalist; consume with cloud flexibility to deliver a cloud-like experience, with multi-tenant workspaces that eliminate stranded resources and flexes on demand; and deploy at cloud speed to empower developers and lines-of-business with a self-service portal that can instantly compose and recompose VMs in minutes. Built-in enterprise grade features, such as performance and resiliency enable HPE Hyper Converged systems to easily handle a wide variety of virtualized workloads, including general purpose virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud.

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Sample Customers

Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, NASA, Thorntons, Inc., TUI, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few.

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