We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and HPE Alletra dHCI 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."We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The price was right."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."
"The product provides zero downtime."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"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 main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"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."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"The product does not support file services."
"Lacking integration to the cloud."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."
"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while HPE Alletra dHCI 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 HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and StorPool, whereas HPE Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE Alletra dHCI report.
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