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."Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"It is a very stable solution."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"I found the solution to be very stable."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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."
"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."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"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."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"The integration is not difficult because there is no GUI, but we need to use a PowerShell command. This makes it difficult to monitor and to see the components' statuses."
"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."
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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 8 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.2. 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 "The initial setup is straightforward, but the solution has strict compatibility methods". 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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