We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, StarWind, DataCore and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Storage is always available."
"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."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"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."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"A company can scale it easily."
"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."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 14 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.4, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.0. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Reliable with helpful support and good replication". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Pure Storage FlashArray, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and VxRail.
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