We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and IBM Spectrum Accelerate 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)."Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Good security with this solution."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The most valuable feature is the robustness, which is typical of IBM because their software generally just works."
"The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's very user-friendly."
"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."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"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."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"he interface is not user-friendly so the ease of use could be improved."
"The reporting mechanisms need improvement."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 53 reviews while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is ranked 18th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while IBM Spectrum Accelerate is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Accelerate writes "A robust solution with good performance and support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas IBM Spectrum Accelerate is most compared with IBM Spectrum Scale.
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