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."It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"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."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The solution is very stable."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"The ease of managing this system."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"Its interface could be better."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"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."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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