We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Dell PowerPath based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Good security with this solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that disaster recovery scenarios are very good and easy to use in Dell PowerPath since it is available in a simplified form."
"The product is very reliable."
"The user interface is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration without disruptions."
"The solution has improved our performance, reliability, and redundancy."
"It provides a high availability and will increase the performance of any server or operating system."
"We have found the solution to be quite flexible and very scalable."
"OS-aware multipathing is a valuable feature of the product."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"The product must adapt to other storage technologies like HPE 3PAR."
"While I utilize it for data migration, I would love to do that data migration in a GUI from an ease of use perspective."
"Although PowerPath is very mature and has been on the market for more than 15 years there are still a lot of bugs that have been profiled with PowerPath, specifically, during any OS upgrade."
"The solution should provide extensive reports on backups and backup failures."
"The solution is quite stable, although they have not quite worked out all of the kinks."
"The technical support is good but they are not available all the time."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Customers do not choose PowerPath unless they have Unix or Linux."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Dell PowerPath is ranked 3rd in Storage Software with 8 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Dell PowerPath is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerPath writes "A resilient and reliable solution that has many load-balancing technologies and provides high availability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and NetApp ONTAP, whereas Dell PowerPath is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray and NetApp ONTAP. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell PowerPath report.
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