The software is very intuitive and smart. All features are logical and can be customized at will. It is very suitable to our solution as an active/active configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downfall of software is the inability to support the users when the platform it is on is the issue. I was once let down by the datacore support team when they turn down my request to be assisted on a install that yielded an HBA issue. The fix was eventually discovered by myself as to logically install the software in a particular order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Storage protection, geographic features, caching, use whatever storage equipment you can find Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've had issues with Microsoft's iSCSI interface, buffer iSCSI resets, some issues with the software crashing-which primarily have been resolved. We had a ticket that was a year + opened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our environment never goes down. This system is so redundant that I can take hosts offline and the end users are unaware of any changes at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upgrades can be tricky, you have to manage the systems using a another client outside of VCenter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Software-defined storage is the future. By decoupling the hardware from the storage software, we were able to choose the best hardware at the lowest price while ensuring enterprise-grade storage was provided to our end users. The in-memory mirroring from DataCore allows for incredible performance with all-SATA mixed SSD/HDD drive configurations where other products simply do not perform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Understanding the reasons behind a windows-only solution, which ensures maximum compatibility with a variety of hardware, a linux-based solution would have been nice as it aligns with a lot of our existing automation tools such as Ansible (most of our roles/plays are already written for Linux). The limitations behind an HA-paring (mirroring) of nodes could also be better suited by a distributed mesh topology, similar to SolidFire and ScaleIO, to allow for better recovery from a degraded state and scalable performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and intuitive interface. Very solid and stable environment. Relatively trouble free and low maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One has to be smarter than me to configure some of the networking. That's not a real high bar........ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This solution allows the use off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage. So we can throw in our own enterprise-class hardware (including SSDs) and not pay any extra based on the type of storage we use. This is the same model used with server virtualization. Keep the hardware separate from software. This is true "storage virtualization" at it's finest. The software over the years has matured to be a very robust and allows you to build a very high performing storage platform. It has all the features of any high-end SAN such as fibre channel, iSCSI, thin provisioning, storage tiering, snapshots, continuous data protection/recovery synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, performance reporting/graphing, true HA design.

You can utilise just about any storage you wish with this product such as another SAN, NAS, JBOD, FusionIO etc. If Windows can see it as a non-removable drive, you can use it with SANsymphony. Also, you can use this to mirror any of these various types of storage which is awesome for migration. Say you have an HP SAN and you want to migrate off it to your own JBOD type storage or you have 2 sites with 2 different storage SANs that you want to replicate data between. With DataCore, it is possible to mix and match just about any storage platform you want to use.

The system is designed to run on top of Windows Server OS (which can be virtual or physical) and can utilise the server's RAM to provide disk cache. This makes our 7.2K storage run really fast and allows us to use a bottom tier class of drive and get the performance of a much higher class of drive. Alos if we have to add capacity or replace drives we can just order replacement drives off the web saving us quite a bit of money. Of course, we still use "enterprise-class" drives but we don't pay through the nose to buy hardware. If we want to upgrade the Ethernet ports from 1Gb to 10Gb we just do it. Same goes for FC. If we want to upgrade from 4Gb FC to 16Gb, we don't have to do a forklift upgrade. We just buy the HBAs and we're off the to races.

The other great thing is DataCore keeps their product on VMware's approve HCL. So even if you have a SAN that falls off the HCL with VMware. If you put the storage behind DataCore you won't have to worry about VMware's HCL any longer. Because of this fundamental practice, DataCore was one of the first storage vendors to support vVOLs.

Support is OUTSTANDING and they release new updates and features frequently (sometimes almost too frequently). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's very little that I can find in their software that I would say I dislike. Sometimes the updates are too frequent and just as we finish updating all our sites another update comes out. Due to the many, many various options for what hardware to use, sometimes it is difficult trying to figure out what hardware options are the best for the money. DataCore can help a bit with this but because they only are the software side of the solution they tend to not prefer one hardware vendor over another (they get along with everyone). They do have good documentation that covers known issues with various hardware items.

Currently, SANsymphony does HA with just 2 sets of mirrored drives/RAID sets over FC or iSCSI. It would be interesting to see if in the future they can stripe the data across 3 or more nodes to create an n+1 type configuration.

While their console allows you to connect to each of the nodes without closing the interface you have to log out and in when you switch between a different storage server groups. It would be nice if they had an interface more like vCenter to where you see all server group in a list and can just click on each group. It would be nice to be able to see multiple groups at the same time.

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The administration of this product has reduced the IT man hours for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trouble shooting can be somewhat challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The peace of mind that our ever growing data is protected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system has been very seamless for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DataCore SANsymphony gives us independency from storage vendors. It allows our operations continue working transparently in case of multiple hardware failures.

Support response is fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing we dislike is price. Also we want new features that are not available at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Really nothing.............................. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.