DataCore SANsymphony vs Veritas Volume Manager [EOL] comparison

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DataCore and Veritas are both solutions in the Storage Software category. Additionally, 97% of DataCore users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

DataCore SANsymphony

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Veritas Volume Manager [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), HCI (10th), Storage Performance (1st)

Veritas Volume Manager [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

Storage platform has improved data performance and has provided reliable support for my clients

It's difficult to know how DataCore SANsymphony can be improved. I think DataCore SANsymphony could be deployed on Linux environments, which could be a great thing for clients. I would like to see the stabilization of the Veeam implementation in the future, and perhaps the integration or officialization of compatibility with Proxmox and XCP-ng. With Proxmox, it wasn't easy while integrating it with third-party solutions. It's working, but it was a bit difficult to deploy.

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it_user1131

Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Veritas Volume Manager is a robust product part of the Veritas Storage Foundation suite by Symantec. It is designed to ease the management of rapidly growing IT environments and above all provide consistency and availability of data.

• Veritas Volume Manager is available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, allowing a standard solution design and facilitating support for large and diverse environments • Veritas DMP (Dynamic Multi Pathing) works great. Multi-path software effectively detects SAN failures and bottlenecks, enabling high data availability and good performance • Perform regular maintenance tasks such as filesystem increase or even decrease (only for Veritas File System) on the fly • Symantec support does a really good job. The few times it was needed, they provided excellent and timely results

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Excellent performance and reliability, and very low cost using home hardware."

"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."

"This product has a good ratio between quality and price; in many cases, it's less expensive to work with DataCore than other storage systems."

"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."

"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."

"I found the solution to be very stable."

"The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."

"We have a reliable and secure infrastructure thanks to SANsymphony, and all at less cost."

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"Symantec support and documentation are very good, and pricing in most cases proves to be worth it when taking into consideration the benefits of its implementation."

Cons

"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."

"Deduplication works but implementing it is complex."

"Tech support is NOT good at all, even when buying the higher level support from them."

"The area of DataCore SANsymphony that has room for improvement is the support."

"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."

"Maybe adding a Linux data manager, and moving away from Windows."

"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."

"The graphical interface needs to be improved. We have noticed some bugs in it."

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"Although it is easy to perform regular maintenance tasks, Veritas Volume Manager is hard to master."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage."

"The cost is at the same level as other storage solutions and it is easy to understand the licensing."

"DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is very high and should be much cheaper."

"The solution is cost effective."

"In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality."

"It is relatively expensive, and the additional costs for hardware and storage can make it a significant investment for customers."

"This product has a good ratio between quality and price. In many cases, it's less expensive to work with DataCore than other storage systems."

"Pricing has improved but it is still expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?

I am saying that the pricing is reasonable. It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable. It's a good solution and the price is okay regarding the other products.

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What is your primary use case for DataCore SANsymphony?

I usually recommend DataCore SANsymphony for companies in the domain of research, energy, governmental, and education.

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Also Known As

DataCore Virtual SAN

Volume Manager, Symantec Volume Manager

Overview

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage environments with features like synchronous mirroring, scalability, and flexibility. It optimizes performance through parallel I/O, ensuring high availability, efficiency, and protection against data loss with hardware independence and user-friendly management.

DataCore SANsymphony offers a robust platform for managing storage in VMware environments and beyond, enabling high-performance storage with disaster recovery features and synchronous mirroring. With hardware independence and real-time data replication, SANsymphony supports virtualization and data protection across distributed data centers, ensuring seamless data access. Users benefit from its ease of use, storage pooling, and auto-tiering, managing different storage speeds efficiently and maximizing uptime. DataCore's hardware-independent active-active setup and management tools add value, though improvements in container support, web capabilities, API robustness, and Linux support are needed. Pricing, licensing, tech support, backup integration with Veeam, iSCSI connectivity, and performance reporting are areas for enhancement.

What are the key features of DataCore SANsymphony?

Synchronous Mirroring: Ensures data protection with high-availability mirroring.
Scalability and Flexibility: Adapts to changing storage needs efficiently.
Parallel I/O: Boosts speed significantly through enhanced performance.
Storage Pooling: Simplifies management across different storage resources.
Auto-Tiering: Manages storage speeds efficiently for optimized performance.

What benefits should users consider in DataCore SANsymphony?

High Availability: Ensures continuous data access with synchronous mirroring.
Disaster Recovery: Provides robust data protection strategies.
Performance Optimization: Parallel I/O boosts overall system speed.
Ease of Use: User-friendly features enhance management and operational efficiency.
Hardware Independence: Offers flexibility in choosing storage hardware.

DataCore SANsymphony finds application in industries focusing on high-performance storage requirements, particularly those in VMware environments. Utilized for managing storage across virtual machines and applications, it supports seamless data access within distributed data centers. The platform's real-time data replication, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, and auto-tiering contribute significantly to optimizing performance and maintaining business continuity.

DataCore

Volume Manager enhances data storage management by controlling space allocation, performance, data availability, device installation, and system monitoring of private and shared systems.

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Sample Customers

Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, NASA, Thorntons, Inc., TUI, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few.

Barnabas Health, Batten & Allen, Aviareto, A_roport Toulouse-Blagnac, Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa, Maxim Employee Benefits Ltd.

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