We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Tintri VMstore based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"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."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"Its interface could be better."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF.
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There is no straight answer on this topic. Each storage architecture is different. Since the whole premise of SDS is to abstract the storage management form the hardware, Does the vendors software provide management for all your storage hardware brands and also all types of storage you use? Does it meet the end users needs and IT's? Assuming that you have a list of got to haves and nice to haves, all you can do is compare them. If Datacore meets your needs and you and IT have done your due diligence then go with that. There is always going to be someone with something "better".