We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"Its interface could be better."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"The solution must provide other hypervisors."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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