We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The documentation repository is really useful and kept updated."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are many counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"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 limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Pure Storage FlashArray, whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct report.
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