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DataCore SANsymphony vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
DataCore SANsymphony ensures high availability, cost-effectiveness, licensing flexibility, enhanced security, and performance, despite challenges in quantifying exact returns.
Sentiment score
8.2
StorMagic SvSAN saves costs by using two servers, reducing expenses and achieving break-even in two years.
StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs.
With StorMagic, we calculate the return on investment to be about two years, compared to other solutions we could have adopted.
StorMagic SvSAN has delivered great benefits in overall cost-efficiency since it is an integral part of our complete solutions for clients.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.2
DataCore SANsymphony's customer support is highly rated for responsiveness, expertise, and efficiency, providing industry-leading technical assistance.
Sentiment score
8.7
StorMagic SvSAN support is praised for expertise, rapid 24/7 responses, continuity, and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
They always help me quickly and with great knowledge, which is essential for central storage.
I rate them at a nine out of ten due to their prompt responses and effective solutions to our issues.
They respond rapidly to support requests and provide assistance beyond their scope.
StorMagic offers exemplary customer and technical support, ensuring excellent service and timely assistance that enhances my clients' experience.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
DataCore SANsymphony offers seamless scalability and flexibility, enabling effortless storage expansion and performance upgrades without disruptions.
Sentiment score
7.5
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for scalability in edge environments, ideal for small to medium businesses, but costly for larger setups.
There are no limits to scalability, which is essential for central storage.
We can simply add more ESX hosts to a cluster and deploy additional controllers without any issues.
StorMagic SvSAN is easy to scale.
Scaling CPU and servers can be costly due to increased licensing fees beyond two nodes.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
DataCore SANsymphony is highly reliable and stable, with minimal downtime, improved by updates and Microsoft server enhancements.
Sentiment score
8.8
StorMagic SvSAN is praised for stability, efficiency, and reliability, supporting data flows seamlessly across varied IT infrastructures.
StorMagic SvSAN has demonstrated flawless stability over the past six years, with no reported downtime, bugs, or glitches.
Its ability to seamlessly migrate running machines to another host during maintenance ensures uninterrupted operations and a transparent user experience.
The stability of StorMagic SvSAN is excellent.
 

Room For Improvement

DataCore SANsymphony users seek improved support, pricing, interface, integration, connectivity, reporting, analytics, updates, and licensing flexibility.
StorMagic SvSAN needs improved licensing, scalability, features, user interface, security, monitoring integration, enterprise modeling, documentation, and pricing.
there should be improvements in how to get and filter logs
It would be beneficial to have a central place for configurations, similar to VMware vCenter.
Ideally, the console should provide plugins or similar configuration options for seamless integration with these tools.
Unauthorized access to the SvSAN server could cause significant damage.
 

Setup Cost

DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is mixed, balancing cost-effective licensing with expenses and requiring careful cost optimization and certified integrator collaboration.
StorMagic SvSAN offers competitive, predictable pricing based on capacity, providing cost efficiency over larger storage providers like VMware.
The cost changed from a perpetual license to a subscription model.
The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable.
I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly.
Choosing the maximum capacity proved cost-effective, especially compared to alternatives like VMware vSAN, which would have been significantly more expensive based on VCP cores.
 

Valuable Features

DataCore SANsymphony offers high availability, seamless data migration, and efficient performance with robust compatibility and scalable capabilities.
StorMagic SvSAN offers easy implementation, high availability, and cost-effectiveness, ideal for budget-conscious enterprises with limited infrastructure needs.
Customers can extend storage with flexibility, as one is not obligated to purchase hard disks or controllers from the same storage vendor.
I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex.
For our solution in production plants, stability is crucial.
StorMagic engineers were very helpful in setting up the system, remoting into our system to assist, which was very beneficial.
 

Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
5th
Ranking in HCI
7th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Storage Software (2nd), Storage Performance (2nd)
StorMagic SvSAN
Ranking in Software Defined Storage (SDS)
6th
Ranking in HCI
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Software Defined Storage (SDS) category, the mindshare of DataCore SANsymphony is 7.9%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorMagic SvSAN is 7.2%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
 

Featured Reviews

TempreviewerD - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust with good replication and access protection
The solution is constantly evolving. Recently, deduplication and compression have been further improved to meet customer needs, and updates are easily implemented without stopping production. The update assistant checks the state of health before using good practices, during checks that the data is still presented for service continuity, and afterward, if the actions carried out are indeed active. Technical support is truly available even without a production incident. This is really essential right now.
Georgi Petrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain
What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Retailer
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?
I rate the pricing of this solution as an eight. It is relatively expensive, and the additional costs for hardware and storage can make it a significant investment for customers.
What do you like most about DataCore SANsymphony?
The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress).
What needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?
One area where the solution could improve is its software platform. Many customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the software running on Microsoft Windows. Although an attempt was made to dev...
What do you like most about StorMagic SvSAN?
It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?
StorMagic's pricing model is fair, allowing payment based on actual use.
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
Maybe the hardware compatibility could be expanded or widened. Another point could be to change the price model since it has lots of capacity but does not always fit our pricing requirements. We ar...
 

Also Known As

DataCore Virtual SAN
StorMagic
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, NASA, Thorntons, Inc., TUI, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few.
Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, RWE Renewables, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rommelsbacher, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, Eugen Forschner GmbH
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