DataCore Software-Defined Storage Reviews & Product Details

Datacore Sansymphony allow fast access to your storage and you can aggregate all your old storage bay.

It can replicate your data between server on other rooms or sites. Failover, replication and failback are easy to use and completly transparent for users in production.

Integration with vsphere is very easy and replicated connections are well managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The console is not user friendly, I prefer web based administration in html5.

An update comme with the last version. It's better but not very user friendly for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of the builtin mirror function our DataCore Storage Cluster has an 100% availability quote over the last ten years. You can update, migrate, power off one server and the other one goes seemlesly active.

Also the user friendly admin interface helps new IT stuff to handle the software when they are new in the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DataCore takes its time to release support for current OS e.g. Windows Server 2019. I also think that the ressource portal could be a little more structured. You have to search a lot to find the right support ressources - but you find them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is my first datacore environment that has now been running for about 7 months and we have had no problems thus far. It has been extremely easy to manage to the point that I rarely do anything with it. It just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To date, I have found nothing that I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most useful features are the continuity of service, mirroring and auto-tiering, redundant storage and the associated performance. We enjoy great reliability, flexibility and performance. DataCore helps to use memory efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Actually, I have found nothing that I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Installation of this hyper-converged infrastructure in our school this summer with two servers directly attached. It works perfectly!!

The parallel I/O function is very useful when there are many requests for read/write access to the disks. The administration is simple and easy. * It is possible to create a virtual disk very easily, and moving the virtual machines is fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product update system is not very simple and the administration console is a little old Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SANSymphony provides 100% uptime from it's mirrored disks and redundant paths.This means that maintenance can be performed at any time on disk subsystems without interruption to business systems. This coupled with it's vendor agnostic hardware support, speed from it's data caching and easy to administer interface make it an excellent product for data storage. Datacore support is very good, they have a very quick response times and good diagnostics are built right into the software to analyse any issues that may occur. I've found a lot of support is also offered outside the scope of SANSymphony, for instance host configuration tips and they showed me a brilliant reference in their knowledge base for fibre optic grades recently - not something I'd expect a software vendor to offer! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having to calculate virtual disk sizes when provisioning disks to prevent over subscription of disk pools can be a little tricky, but I believe this is more an issue with disk geometry than SANSymphony itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is easy to install, easy to manage and is stable. The company has been using this product for almost two decades now and have very few issues. Our downtime is almost zero for volumes served to our customers. The application is windows based and functions really well, very stable. I don't have to think about redundancy, having two systems built to mirror each other takes care of that. If one side is down, customers stay connected on the secondary active side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is windows based. It would be nice if linux was supported. Not a negative, but stability has improved with the current windows versions. Console may feel dated. Maybe design a snap-in style console/manager where I can organize the most commonly used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datacore storage is extremely reliable and easy to configue and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface can become buggy on major revision changes. They do resolve on next update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With datacore we have a redundant storage, so we have a higher availability of our virtual servers.

It is a very stable and product with good performance. Since installation, the system runs stable without any problems until now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One time we had lost the communication between the hardware servers and after that we needed the datacore support to bring the mirror back online.

The support was good and fast, but I wish there would be a better functionality to bring back the system online without support.

But as the failure was not datacores fault (was a hardware issue) and apart from this we never needed their support it is not a bis problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the BCP and the teering to improve the performance. The facility to use the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In this product, if you have a problem the support help you to resolve it. Well i dislike nothing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

La solution sansynfony allie performances et sécurité. Elle est facile a administrer et permet une excellente sécurisation des données. Elle est utilisée au quotidien dans mon ultrastructure pour le stockage en réplication de nos données de virtualisation de serveurs et de vdi. Elle a grandement facilité la gestion du teering et de la réplication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

La solution nécessite une bonne connaissance à l’installation et la configuration. Même si l'interface reste claire elle nécessite un petit apprentissage dans sont utilisation. Cependant la visualisation des éléments clés se fait sans problèmes. En cas de crash nous n'avons pas eu de soucis de resynchronisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My company change our it infrastructure and we make the choice to go with Datacore SANsymphony. It's a very good experience and the support are very reactive and serious. The availibility is improve by this solution and end user like performance improve too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing for the moment It's a recent installation for our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that DataCore SANsymphony increased the performance of our DataCenter and has an easy to understand license model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the moment i have nothing to dislike at DataCore SANsymphony, i haven't had any trouble with DataCore so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love this program because of the great speed and how much memory it holds, great addition to any company to hold tons of important data and documents important to keep a business growing and updated! I would love to see another version of this because it has been so helpful to me and others I would love to see it grow into a must need program for business needs, I think its helpful and will help my company grow and succeed to its financial expectations, I think that if you want to commit to one program this would be it. You wont be disappointed with its speed and data memory of the program, I would give this a try and recommend to all business need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love everything about this program! I would recommend it to everyone even small company's will find it helpful to be able to keep updated information! I cant think of anything else, that would make this program better so, I would say this is one program that I cant think of anything that I dislike about it but, there's always way to improve and make a program better so, I would just add to make an updated version because it would make companies jobs easier with this awesome data core and it may fix just general issues if you are a bigger company that would need to save more and detailed information that would not fit on this program but, other than that it fits my company and clients needs where it will keep me from having issues with not enough data being able to fit in an organized way to access it easier so, I don't know what I would do without this awesome program! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

simplicity oh emplenting solution in our datacenter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

licencing is more difficult to endurstand and not easy to deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using DataCore SANsymphony Software since many years. We haven‘t had any storage downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past the Licensing was very complex with many optional addons. Since a few years it‘s all included in capacity based licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to configure and manage software-defined storage solution. Platform agnostic and versatile, so we can install on commodity hardware. Initial cost for a hyperconverged system is much lower than other competing systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although extremely cost-effective when initially purchased 5 years ago on a perpetual license, DataCore have since moved to a subscription model which may be a little too much for us to sustain over time. We may need to look for an alternative in 3 years, when our pre-paid subscription expires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease with which I can create and manage storage for my entire network from one easy to use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only area I see lacking with DataCore is there support. Its not very good at all and is, frankly, very frustrating and has almost caused me to swear off the product. Although the product itself (especially when working) is developed and runs so well I keep using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simple way to create S2D Storage Systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothink i dont like. Alle best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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