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"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"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."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"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."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Storage is always available."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"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."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"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."
"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."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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