We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity 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 license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"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."
"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 most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"Storage is always available."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The initial setup is simple."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"It's a very complex installation. It's gotten easier, however, it's far from a double click on a link and a self-upgrade scenario. There's still an awful lot of magic that goes down to doing upgrades."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 12 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 60 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.4, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Provides HA virtualized storage independent of storage type or vendor". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Pure Storage FlashArray, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and NetApp HCI. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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