We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and VxRail 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."When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Good security with this solution."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I'd have to say that the biggest improvement gained by using SANsymphony has to be the performance of the product."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"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)."
"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."
"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."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"There is a single vendor with the hardware, software, and maintenance. Thus, there is a single vendor with whom we can contact."
"The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"The tool's price is competitive and it is easy to use."
"This is a great product."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"I would like to see SMPA (Shared Multi-Port Array) technology developed with the aim of allowing a configuration identical to other storage arrays."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"We'd like to manage the raid on the disk directly in SanSymphony."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"The requirements need improvement. Some of the managers of VMs are a little sensitive to where they need to be placed in the environment and what names they need to have. I would like a little more control over that so that it fits into our naming scheme and it fits our organizational structure within vSphere."
"I would like an easier migration. This way, if a node fails like it did, the data would have been migrated and I would not have had to get up at three in the morning."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while VxRail 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. VxRail report.
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