We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library 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 is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"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 alert system could have more features."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 11th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 6 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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