DataCore SANsymphony vs HPE Hyper Converged comparison

DataCore and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the HCI category. DataCore is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.6, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4. DataCore holds a 2.3% mindshare in HCI, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 2.9% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Ranking in HCI

8th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), Storage Performance (1st)

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 February 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of DataCore SANsymphony is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Hyper Converged is 2.9%, down 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	2.3%
HPE Hyper Converged	2.9%
Other	94.8%

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Featured Reviews

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

"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."

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

"DataCore SANsymphony brings stability to the infrastructures, and the infrastructures are healthy after, along with the redundancy."

"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."

"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."

"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."

"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."

"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."

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"The solution has many good features."

"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."

"HPE Hyper Converged is excellent because it can avoid the usage of storage area network."

"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."

"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."

"It is a scalable solution."

"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."

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Cons

"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."

"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."

"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."

"Its interface could be better."

"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."

"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."

"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."

"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."

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

"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."

"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."

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

"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."

"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."

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

"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."

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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."

"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."

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

"The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore."

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

"The solution is cost effective."

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

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

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"The solutions cost us a lot."

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

"With this solution, I buy everything together, pre-packaged, pre-installed, and in just 15 minutes, it's installed."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"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."

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

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

"I would rate the price at seven out of ten. There are no additional licensing fees, but it would be cheaper to go with a dHCI solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

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.

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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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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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