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."Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"An advantage of SANsymphony is its ease of use, especially when installing or upgrading the system."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"Its interface could be better."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"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."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"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."
"Documentation management could be improved"
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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 7 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6. 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 "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". 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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