We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and StorMagic SvSAN 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 license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"It is a stable solution."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The alert system could have more features."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 4th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 54 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 9 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp ONTAP and VxRail, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, LINBIT SDS, Veeam Backup & Replication and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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