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."I found the solution to be very stable."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"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."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"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."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 14 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 100 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Easily scalable with great technical support and very good snapshot capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Easy to set up and maintain with good performance capabilities". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Pure Storage FlashArray and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and HPE SimpliVity. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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