We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"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."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"It is a very stable solution."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"Good security with this solution."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"It gives us a single dashboard to control multiple sites and multiple zones. It helps to do things on a single platform and data sharing is quite easy. The network and the security are easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the user-friendly dashboard and that we don't need to move resources manually when adding new nodes into running clusters."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"They have one of the best technical supports in my experience."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"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."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"I would like to see reporting added, such as a monthly connectivity report."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Could have better visibility with the main OEM backup integrators."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"This solution would be improved with built-in integration with Rubrik."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"As of now, Acropolis and VMware cannot talk to each other. Until we have some kind of interface, it would be much better for Nutanix if they built an interface which can talk. Otherwise, if I have a VMware stack and I already have a Nutanix stack, I create containers, I create clusters on VMware, I create clusters on Nutanix. All of these clusters cannot talk to each other. Then it has to be then subverted as a parallel execution. What happens then is that I have to work in two different environments within my data center. Practically, they are two different data centers but physically and logically, they are one. If they cannot talk to each other that creates a lot of issues. That is something which Nutanix has to develop because for Nutanix it is very simple. For example, Oracle is using a function called GoldenGate. They have a feature called GoldenGate which allows them to talk to various different environments which must really help."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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