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."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."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"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."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"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."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"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."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"Problem detection could be easier. It should help customers identify problems very quickly because it's not easy to analyze on the platform today."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"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."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The documentation could be better."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 14 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 79 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.4, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Provides HA virtualized storage independent of storage type or vendor". 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, Pure Storage FlashArray, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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