We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."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 features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Storage is always available."
"It is a stable solution."
"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 synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"A very flexible solution."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"A company can scale it easily."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"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."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"User interface could be improved."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"It is a costly solution."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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