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."Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"Good security with this solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"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 think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"Product doesn't scale."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
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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