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."During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Our central storage has very high availability. DataCore SANsymphony ensures high business continuity."
"Good security with this solution."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"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."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"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."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
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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