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."They offer top-tier support."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Storage is always available."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Good security with this solution."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"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."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Product doesn't scale."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
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 Scale Computing HC3. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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