DataCore SANsymphony Reviews

We can not afford periods for maintenance. So we need a solution with which we can provide appropriate high availability. 100% guaranteed with DataCore SANSymphony-V.

Our data centers are divided into three sections. It is possible that the provision of data is guaranteed in the event of an error. We use a three-way-mirror from DataCore SANSymphony-V.

• Three-way mirror synchronization of the data over three sections
• Auto-tiering: effective utilization of fast to slow memory areas
• CDP: Continuous data protection is an important part of our backup strategy.

The management: management should take place via OS-independent access. Here a web-based client would be desirable.

More than five years.

Runs very stable and therefore very trustworthy. Without that, a storage solution would be unthinkable.

The scalability is given in all directions (frontend and backend, capacity) to our requirements.

Very fast, very competent, short ways via mail or telephone.

HP EVA4400.

Simple, as the initial training by the manufacturer and the help is very good.

Initially through a system house, then through our in-house team.

One hour of production downtime is more expensive than the solution.

A very good price-performance ratio. The license model is very successful.

The data was only asynchronously mirrored; thereby there was no transparent failover.

No, it was almost perfect.

We use DataCore to improve the redundancy of our virtual machines so that we can achieve high availability of our server systems.

We are now able to run a hot standby solution for our virtual systems with separated server rooms (in case of fire), and so we can minimize downtimes of our IT infrastructure.

• High availability of storage
• Stability and performance
• Fast implementation and integration.

Installation time was about one day. Since then, it runs stable.

The product runs stable in the background and does what it should do, so I don't have any special issues at the moment, but increasing performance and improving the user interface for easier setup is always a good idea.

One to three years.

It runs fast and stable.

Since its installation, we had no problems.

In our actual environment it runs stable and fast, and about scalability, I can not (yet) say anything, sorry.

To be honest, we did not need the support until now.

No, we did not.

We installed it through our IT partner. Installation time took around one day.

Installed by our standard IT partner.

Expert level I think.

Increased high availability.

The product was installed by our IT partner in one day, so the installation cost is OK.

Pricing and licensing was also fair.

The product was offered by our system integrator, they had installed it several times for other customers without problems, so we trusted them and they were right.

Maybe using a good IT partner who already has some experience with the product.

Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe.

It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc. 

Parallel I/O, because there is no performance degrade nor cache hit when there is a 100% update and 70/30 read/write. There is no performance impact and latency is just 20 ms.

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.

One to three years.

Easy to manage disk pools, different storage tiers and virtual storage repositories Continuous data protection just takes a single click to enable

Pricing can be confounding with many options

SANsymphony-V offers a comprehensive set of storage virtualization functions to build a very robust storage network that speeds up applications, ensures business continuity and facilitates disaster recovery.

Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage.

I have a system that uses approximately 6TB as a file server and I use the thin provisioning to optimize the storage.

When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved.

I think that SAN Symphony Data Core should improve the connectivity of iSCSI initiators on hosts, because sometimes when I do a maintenance any data core server, I lose connection and I need to reboot the server.

I have used this solution for three years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

Technical support is excellent.

I did not use another solution, this it is first one.

The setup was very simple, except the iSCSI network driver on Windows.

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

We evaluated VMware vSAN.

There are many products that fit the needs of the company, however, the support, warranty, scalability, and price are decisive factors when deciding.

I always prefer to do a PoC (demo).

inexpensive for the amount of storage runs on commodity hardware

tech support is NOT good at all, even when buying the higher level support from them. You feel like you know more than the person you are speaking with.

We use the solution for data leakage prevention and information security of the system.

It is a universal solution that manages multiple storage components for different vendors. It integrates well with old storage systems and efficiently synchronizes nodes.

The solution’s interface and ability to manage the data processes could be better.

We have been using the solution for a couple of years.

It is a stable solution. I rate its stability a ten out of ten.

The solution is scalable. I rate its scalability a five out of ten.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it a ten out of ten.