We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Pure Storage FlashArray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, DataCore, Dell Technologies and others in Storage Software."The interface is user-friendly."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"The synchronous mirror allows us to operate a fully redundant storage solution that is distributed across two sites."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"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)."
"Storage is always available."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"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."
"NVMeoF should be implemented. This protocol will play a major role in storage infrastructure in the future."
"The alert system could have more features."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 2nd in Storage Software with 54 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StarWind Virtual SAN, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and VMware vSAN.
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