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 ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"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 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."
"Good security with this solution."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"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."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"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."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"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."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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