We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"It supports multi-cloud integration that includes AWS, Google, and Azure."
"Acropolis AOS's networking concept is excellent."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"The pricing is pretty good."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"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 think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"The productivity and work efficiency of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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