DataCore SANsymphony Reviews

The project was to replace an old SAN (from Dell EMC) with a new system that is more resilient and offers high availability.

We replaced a SAN (Dell EMC) product with two servers and the SANsymphony software. The solution is more scalable and very easy to administrate.

We have gained in scalability. The most valuable feature for us is that we can adjust the size of the storage very easily, without stopping production. The product is easy to administrate.

Even though it is easy to administrate, the initial installation and configuration can be complicated.

The alert system could have more features.

We feel that this solution is very scalable.

SAN volumes for all system types. You can serve Linux and Windows systems alike, just add the multipath software.

• Multi-site redundancy, who wouldn't want that?
• Cluster maintenance is super easy: just add a node to the second site and the software takes care of the data.

Auto-tiering moves data to fast disk if needed. Works great. I don't have to think about the second set of data.

Maybe adding a Linux data manager, and moving away from Windows. It has become more reliable when using 2012/2016.

Using the newer MS server version has made the system more stable.

Very helpful support!

Straightforward. It supports fibre channel.

In-house.

Check what's out there.

No.

Once you use it, you won't want something else. No vendor lock-in.

• A powerful, always-on system. We used DataCore for a few years. 
• The best solution to get build and an always-on strategy. It has zero downtime and is very fast and flexible.

• Creates and build fast flash-only storage systems
• Creates storages with TB in small units
• Saves many kW of power and cooling. 

Mirrored vDisk, and creating a third node with asynchronous replication to get the data out of the datacenter. The new third node is great for an always-on experience.

• Better integration into backup solutions like Veeam
• An HTML5 feature GUI will improve usability.

We are using DataCore to increase I/O, to more flexibly utilize storage and to provide a robust offsite replication solution.

It has really helped with I/O and being able to manage our storage more simply.

The ease with which I can create and manage storage for my entire network from one easy-to-use interface.

The only area I see lacking with DataCore is their support. It's not very good at all, and it's frankly, very frustrating and has almost caused me to swear off the product. With that said, the product itself (especially when working) is developed and runs very well and because of that I will keep using it.

Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage.

I have a system that uses approximately 6TB as a file server and I use the thin provisioning to optimize the storage.

When I sometimes reboot for maintenance, the connectivity from the iSCSI initiator host could be improved.

I think that SAN Symphony Data Core should improve the connectivity of iSCSI initiators on hosts, because sometimes when I do a maintenance any data core server, I lose connection and I need to reboot the server.

I have used this solution for three years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

Technical support is excellent.

I did not use another solution, this it is first one.

The setup was very simple, except the iSCSI network driver on Windows.

In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.

We evaluated VMware vSAN.

There are many products that fit the needs of the company, however, the support, warranty, scalability, and price are decisive factors when deciding.

I always prefer to do a PoC (demo).

Low-cost infrastructure for SOHO.

Excellent performance and reliability, and very low cost using home hardware.

Flexibility. You can install it on almost any hardware and/or hypervisor.

Deduplication works but implementing it is complex.