We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."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."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"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."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"We like SnapMirror and we've been using it for many years. We also like the object storage tools, as well as cloud sync for customers wanting to integrate between the cloud and local."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"The most valuables features of it are the deduplication and the compaction because the ratios are much better than what we normally get on our FAS storage."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"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."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
"Because I like block mode, I'd like to see SAN connectivity. I would like to be able to easily put it into my current environment."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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