Our main use case for DataCore SANsymphony is that we are a very big company that has two sites with a distance of 50 kilometers and it needed disaster recovery and business continuity. I have nothing else to add about my main use case.
The best features of DataCore SANsymphony include replication. The replication feature is great, especially real-time replication, which ensures high availability of the solution.
We provide services and solutions for end customers. The only software-defined storage solution we sell and successfully deploy is DataCore SANsymphony ( /products/datacore-sansymphony-reviews ). We primarily use it for small environments, mostly as central storage for VMware customers.
We use the product for customers seeking a simple yet highly redundant storage solution independent of any specific hardware. It supports synchronous mirroring and enables storage migrations across different hardware platforms, making it versatile.
I'm working on a San Symphony Infrastructure. I use it for my company, and this is also what we install for our clients. All of the clients have to do maintenance operations during business hours, and they have to schedule it never to disturb their users. Thanks to San Symphony, they can do whatever they want, whenever they want. I really like to dissociate virtual volumes from any virtual machines. It allows you to manage granularly the storage of your virtual machines. I separated VMs and files on different volumes in my case
The primary use case is the provisioning of high-performance and redundant storage for our VMware platform. With the help of auto-tiering, the data lands on the optimal storage tier for it. Furthermore, integration into the backup system is very important to us. We use Veeam B&R, which, with SANsymphony integration, is able to work much more efficiently via storage snapshots. We use SANsymphony within a data center distributed over two locations. This was very easy to implement. This also includes settings that optimize the data traffic between the locations.
I am an infrastructure engineer for a partner and 95% of the infrastructure that I recommend and/or install and maintain for my clients are based on the triptych: SANsymphony/vSphere/Veeam. I have often succeeded in convincing clients to add security to their storage by replacing an old single-site infrastructure while providing a Business Continuity Plan solution. Of all the customers where I installed the DataCore solution, only one decided not to keep it; however, it was for reasons of political strategy following a change of CIO.
IT Administrator at Anton Häring KG Werk für Präzisionstechnik
User
Jan 12, 2024
We exchanged our standard storage (conventional storage) with a software-defined solution. We wanted to use something that corresponds to the time, something modern and hardware-independent. We had many small problems, but with time, we were on the way. Only once did we have a total failure of the storage, and this was a bug in the software. The Disaster Recovery (DR) site helped us to recover the data. This was a one and only case and we were disappointed. In the end, we have two DataCore systems, a two-node system, and a three-node system. Over time I must say, we have been satisfied. It has advanced storage knowledge and good administrators.
I needed to protect the storage of my virtual machines in my VMware vSphere cluster. The simplicity of management and the increase in its capacity were a mandatory technological choice. I don't have a large infrastructure; I wanted to secure it on two sites. This choice allowed me not to invest in two large storage bays at the time of purchase, to invest a large sum at the time of purchase, and to continue paying for the entire lifespan and use. The savings can be used for other investments.
SANsymphony is our software-defined storage platform that provides the best scalable high availability of our files, and it seems to have the best data protection. It enables us to deploy multiple servers and multiple sites to increase data availability. SANsymphony ensures business continuity with three lines of defense: transparent bypass of storage problems, reactivation at another location, and secure recovery of an earlier ‘healthy’ data state. We have had no problems with our files for more than ten years.
The solution allows you to virtualize storage via software and not at hardware level, allowing you to also implement hyper-convergence and hardware-independent solutions. Since the data is written on two distinct nodes yet mirrored between them, this allows for easier maintenance of the individual nodes. We have implemented the solution to replace the infrastructure consisting of two physical VMware servers and shared storage, thus removing the single point of failure for the connection with the storage.
Sales representative for A customers / key accounts at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Reseller
Aug 18, 2023
Usually, our clients want to replace some storage units from NetApp. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't because NetApp still has some features that DataCore SANsymphony would like to have.
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
User
Nov 5, 2022
We have two VMware servers attached to two DataCore SanSymphony servers. The two SanSymphony servers are in high availability. Each server has two NVMe cards and some SAS disk in RAID5. We use the auto-tiering function to manage the two kinds of storage and place the dormant blocks on the SAS disks. We also use the Continuous Data Protection function to protect our volumes against crypto lockers, for example. The solution allows us to have real Business Continuity Planning on our storage system.
SANsymphony is a software solution that enables storage virtualization. We implemented SANsymphony due to its mirroring and continuous data protection features. The installation is done independently of the hardware and even allows infrastructures in synchronous replication in active/active with different manufacturers. The data is identical and accessible on both storage nodes. The solution also allows you to create a Disaster Recovery Site with an asynchronous and bidirectional mirror that is easier to test.
We utilize the software-defined storage for our database systems and virtualization environments (we have multiple). One detail we utilize most is the HA provided by the vendor. We have two “legs” for connectivity to our SAN. This provides two logical locations in two physically separate data centers. This keeps our DBAs and admins happy. We can perform changes and updates on one side while the app (DB) data is accessible on the other. The data is synced almost instantly when both sides are up and operational. This allows us a lot of flexibility.
We work with the enterprise edition, SANsymphony V SDS. The solution is geared towards small and medium-sized businesses, with two or three node clusters supporting business continuity and nonstop operations of virtual machines or servers. This makes the solution very stable, cost effective and simple to administer and maintain.
SANsymphony is a hardware-independent solution that provides storage virtualization. We implemented SANsymphony because of its mirrors feature. So it allows you to store the data on two sides synchronously on a single storage server. However, that single storage server consists of two independent hardware boxes in two data centers, but it behaves like one storage server because it's mirrored. No other vendor was offering that kind of transparent behavior when we implemented it.
We're using SANsymphnony for our primary storage in a HA environment for sensitive production data. Storage nodes are HPE servers with SSD drives in them. They serve storage to two servers blades enclosures in a Fibre Channel storage network. We have a total of 50TB in a mirror. 16 servers use this storage in a VMware vSphere environment. This infrastructure has run without any issues since 2017 and we update it twice a year. Before that, we had other SANsymphony infrastructure running on an old HMP MSA storage array. We migrated without any interruption.
The solution is used for the provision of high performance and high availability block storage. By using auto-tiering, many applications can benefit from the high performance of current NVMe SSDs. At the same time, cold data is kept on low-cost storage resources. The separation of data streams from different applications (e.g. SAP HANA, SQL server, virtualisation) also increases overall performance and availability. The use of snapshots for data backup is already planned and scheduled. For this purpose, Veeam Backup 11 will be connected to SSY. The backup will then be LANless via Fibre Channel.
SANSymphony is used to provide HA storage block services to the vSphere Streched Cluster. The backend virtualized storage is a mix of internal node storage and SAN (Dell Compellent, IBM Storwize). It can be fiberchannel connected or iscsi or both. By using this solution we provide a High Availability storage solution. We can do the running of VMs in classic Windows or Linux workload and Citrix virtual Apps. This is a software solution, so new functionality does not rely on any hardware.
Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Mar 13, 2021
I work with many customers that ask us to put their solution near the production because they can't stop the production. It's easier to protect the network this way.
System Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Top 20
Mar 28, 2019
We use this solution for providing software-defined storage that is virtualized, in a true HA configuration. It provides SAN storage services to VMware vCenter hosts and VMware Horizon hosts, as well as some physical Windows and Linux servers. This platform allows us to leverage any storage that Windows can leverage, including other vendor SAN devices. This allows us to keep existing storage, mirror SANs from 2 different vendors and even allow very easy migration from one vendor to another. Most of our locations just use RAID attached storage (as it is the least expensive) with enterprise-class drives (both HDD and SSD).
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....
I usually recommend DataCore SANsymphony for companies in the domain of research, energy, governmental, and education.
Our main use case for DataCore SANsymphony is that we are a very big company that has two sites with a distance of 50 kilometers and it needed disaster recovery and business continuity. I have nothing else to add about my main use case.
The best features of DataCore SANsymphony include replication. The replication feature is great, especially real-time replication, which ensures high availability of the solution.
We provide services and solutions for end customers. The only software-defined storage solution we sell and successfully deploy is DataCore SANsymphony ( /products/datacore-sansymphony-reviews ). We primarily use it for small environments, mostly as central storage for VMware customers.
We use the product for customers seeking a simple yet highly redundant storage solution independent of any specific hardware. It supports synchronous mirroring and enables storage migrations across different hardware platforms, making it versatile.
I'm working on a San Symphony Infrastructure. I use it for my company, and this is also what we install for our clients. All of the clients have to do maintenance operations during business hours, and they have to schedule it never to disturb their users. Thanks to San Symphony, they can do whatever they want, whenever they want. I really like to dissociate virtual volumes from any virtual machines. It allows you to manage granularly the storage of your virtual machines. I separated VMs and files on different volumes in my case
The primary use case is the provisioning of high-performance and redundant storage for our VMware platform. With the help of auto-tiering, the data lands on the optimal storage tier for it. Furthermore, integration into the backup system is very important to us. We use Veeam B&R, which, with SANsymphony integration, is able to work much more efficiently via storage snapshots. We use SANsymphony within a data center distributed over two locations. This was very easy to implement. This also includes settings that optimize the data traffic between the locations.
I am an infrastructure engineer for a partner and 95% of the infrastructure that I recommend and/or install and maintain for my clients are based on the triptych: SANsymphony/vSphere/Veeam. I have often succeeded in convincing clients to add security to their storage by replacing an old single-site infrastructure while providing a Business Continuity Plan solution. Of all the customers where I installed the DataCore solution, only one decided not to keep it; however, it was for reasons of political strategy following a change of CIO.
We exchanged our standard storage (conventional storage) with a software-defined solution. We wanted to use something that corresponds to the time, something modern and hardware-independent. We had many small problems, but with time, we were on the way. Only once did we have a total failure of the storage, and this was a bug in the software. The Disaster Recovery (DR) site helped us to recover the data. This was a one and only case and we were disappointed. In the end, we have two DataCore systems, a two-node system, and a three-node system. Over time I must say, we have been satisfied. It has advanced storage knowledge and good administrators.
I needed to protect the storage of my virtual machines in my VMware vSphere cluster. The simplicity of management and the increase in its capacity were a mandatory technological choice. I don't have a large infrastructure; I wanted to secure it on two sites. This choice allowed me not to invest in two large storage bays at the time of purchase, to invest a large sum at the time of purchase, and to continue paying for the entire lifespan and use. The savings can be used for other investments.
SANsymphony is our software-defined storage platform that provides the best scalable high availability of our files, and it seems to have the best data protection. It enables us to deploy multiple servers and multiple sites to increase data availability. SANsymphony ensures business continuity with three lines of defense: transparent bypass of storage problems, reactivation at another location, and secure recovery of an earlier ‘healthy’ data state. We have had no problems with our files for more than ten years.
The solution allows you to virtualize storage via software and not at hardware level, allowing you to also implement hyper-convergence and hardware-independent solutions. Since the data is written on two distinct nodes yet mirrored between them, this allows for easier maintenance of the individual nodes. We have implemented the solution to replace the infrastructure consisting of two physical VMware servers and shared storage, thus removing the single point of failure for the connection with the storage.
Usually, our clients want to replace some storage units from NetApp. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't because NetApp still has some features that DataCore SANsymphony would like to have.
We use the solution for data leakage prevention and information security of the system.
My primary use case for DataCore SANsymphony is SAN rapid storage for virtual machines and the high availability for infrastructure.
We have two VMware servers attached to two DataCore SanSymphony servers. The two SanSymphony servers are in high availability. Each server has two NVMe cards and some SAS disk in RAID5. We use the auto-tiering function to manage the two kinds of storage and place the dormant blocks on the SAS disks. We also use the Continuous Data Protection function to protect our volumes against crypto lockers, for example. The solution allows us to have real Business Continuity Planning on our storage system.
SANsymphony is a software solution that enables storage virtualization. We implemented SANsymphony due to its mirroring and continuous data protection features. The installation is done independently of the hardware and even allows infrastructures in synchronous replication in active/active with different manufacturers. The data is identical and accessible on both storage nodes. The solution also allows you to create a Disaster Recovery Site with an asynchronous and bidirectional mirror that is easier to test.
The product is primarily used for providing block storage space for the virtualization environment.
We utilize the software-defined storage for our database systems and virtualization environments (we have multiple). One detail we utilize most is the HA provided by the vendor. We have two “legs” for connectivity to our SAN. This provides two logical locations in two physically separate data centers. This keeps our DBAs and admins happy. We can perform changes and updates on one side while the app (DB) data is accessible on the other. The data is synced almost instantly when both sides are up and operational. This allows us a lot of flexibility.
We work with the enterprise edition, SANsymphony V SDS. The solution is geared towards small and medium-sized businesses, with two or three node clusters supporting business continuity and nonstop operations of virtual machines or servers. This makes the solution very stable, cost effective and simple to administer and maintain.
SANsymphony is a hardware-independent solution that provides storage virtualization. We implemented SANsymphony because of its mirrors feature. So it allows you to store the data on two sides synchronously on a single storage server. However, that single storage server consists of two independent hardware boxes in two data centers, but it behaves like one storage server because it's mirrored. No other vendor was offering that kind of transparent behavior when we implemented it.
We're using SANsymphnony for our primary storage in a HA environment for sensitive production data. Storage nodes are HPE servers with SSD drives in them. They serve storage to two servers blades enclosures in a Fibre Channel storage network. We have a total of 50TB in a mirror. 16 servers use this storage in a VMware vSphere environment. This infrastructure has run without any issues since 2017 and we update it twice a year. Before that, we had other SANsymphony infrastructure running on an old HMP MSA storage array. We migrated without any interruption.
The solution is used for the provision of high performance and high availability block storage. By using auto-tiering, many applications can benefit from the high performance of current NVMe SSDs. At the same time, cold data is kept on low-cost storage resources. The separation of data streams from different applications (e.g. SAP HANA, SQL server, virtualisation) also increases overall performance and availability. The use of snapshots for data backup is already planned and scheduled. For this purpose, Veeam Backup 11 will be connected to SSY. The backup will then be LANless via Fibre Channel.
SANSymphony is used to provide HA storage block services to the vSphere Streched Cluster. The backend virtualized storage is a mix of internal node storage and SAN (Dell Compellent, IBM Storwize). It can be fiberchannel connected or iscsi or both. By using this solution we provide a High Availability storage solution. We can do the running of VMs in classic Windows or Linux workload and Citrix virtual Apps. This is a software solution, so new functionality does not rely on any hardware.
I work with many customers that ask us to put their solution near the production because they can't stop the production. It's easier to protect the network this way.
We use this solution for providing software-defined storage that is virtualized, in a true HA configuration. It provides SAN storage services to VMware vCenter hosts and VMware Horizon hosts, as well as some physical Windows and Linux servers. This platform allows us to leverage any storage that Windows can leverage, including other vendor SAN devices. This allows us to keep existing storage, mirror SANs from 2 different vendors and even allow very easy migration from one vendor to another. Most of our locations just use RAID attached storage (as it is the least expensive) with enterprise-class drives (both HDD and SSD).