DataCore SANsymphony pros and cons

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

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 documentation repository is really useful and kept updated.

Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us.

The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on.

I found the solution to be very stable.

Storage is always available.

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.

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 most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage.

Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial.

NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future.

The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors.

Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware.

It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes.

We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony.

The graphical interface is not always very stable.

Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards.

The solution could be better packaged and marketed.

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.