We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"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."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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 found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 53 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 182 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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