DataCore SANsymphony vs Dell vSAN Ready Nodes comparison

DataCore and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the HCI category. DataCore is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.4, while Dell Technologies is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. DataCore holds a 2.7% mindshare in HCI, compared to Dell Technologies’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of DataCore users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

DataCore SANsymphony

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

DataCore SANsymphony and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes compete in the storage management and virtualization solutions category. SANsymphony has an upper hand in versatility and support for various hardware vendors, while vSAN Ready Nodes excel in integrated infrastructure and simplicity.

Features: DataCore SANsymphony provides flexibility with features like auto-tiering, continuous data protection, and parallel I/O. It supports diverse storage hardware and improves performance with advanced caching. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes emphasize high availability and stable performance, complemented by efficient management and scalability.

Room for Improvement: DataCore SANsymphony users seek a unified storage approach, improved iSCSI connectivity, and better performance reporting. They also suggest enhancing support quality and streamlining upgrades. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could improve scalability, flexibility, and better cloud integration, along with a straightforward deployment process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DataCore SANsymphony deployment is praised for on-premises flexibility, with reliable support and rapid response. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, while competent in customer support, face challenges with deployment complexity and configuration.

Pricing and ROI: DataCore SANsymphony has a high pricing structure per terabyte, with concerns about long-term cost-effectiveness despite good ROI from availability and performance. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are expensive with limited pricing flexibility, yet both solutions offer significant long-term value.

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DataCore SANsymphony vs. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes

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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

6.5

DataCore SANsymphony offers cost-effectiveness, high availability, and long-term benefits, with reuse, stability, and security contributing to financial advantages.

Sentiment score

3.7

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer 30-40% savings despite integration issues, leveraging existing staff to reduce operating expenses.

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The OPEX benefits are around 30 to 40% because the same engineer who manages vSphere can handle Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, eliminating the need for additional support engineers.

KuldeepSingh4

Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

DataCore SANsymphony is praised for industry-leading, efficient technical support with quick responses and effective problem-solving capabilities.

Sentiment score

4.0

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes support is rated positively, though response times can be slow, with varying service quality.

I rate their technical support a 10.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

They always help me quickly and with great knowledge, which is essential for central storage.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

The customer support is perfect.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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Whether we have pro support plus or just the basic level, they are helpful and reliable as long as we provide the necessary details.

Shaun Sheng

Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

If we require a replacement part, the engagement is usually within four hours

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at First Rand Bank Ltd.

There is always room for improvement in terms of response time and reaching knowledgeable staff quickly.

reviewer2598528

Senior Engineering Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

DataCore SANsymphony offers scalable storage expansion, accommodating diverse hardware and supporting substantial data management with high user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

6.2

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer scalability and flexibility, though costs and resource needs pose challenges for larger deployments.

There are no limits to scalability, which is essential for central storage.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

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With VCF we have significant automation built-in within the VCF console within SDDC manager as the primary management console.

KuldeepSingh4

Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would rate scalability around seven because when customers want to expand capacity but all the drive slots are full, they are forced to buy new servers or nodes which adds more costs with licenses and hardware.

Shaun Sheng

Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

Users praise DataCore SANsymphony's stability, citing reliability and minimal downtime when properly configured, with few user error issues.

Sentiment score

5.1

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are stable and reliable, with high stability ratings, though performance and disk issues require management.

The implementation process is easy for DataCore SANsymphony.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

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A disk group for five disks can be problematic, and customers need to tolerate downtime if the disk is not available.

KuldeepSingh4

Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

DataCore SANsymphony improves disaster recovery and availability, but needs better integration, tools, and simplified pricing for enhanced user experience.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes need better scalability, automation, cost-efficiency, integration, support, and updates to address current customer challenges.

I would like to see the stabilization of the Veeam implementation in the future, and perhaps the integration or officialization of compatibility with Proxmox and XCP-ng.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

there should be improvements in how to get and filter logs

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

DataCore SANsymphony can be improved with high availability as it offers synchronous mirroring between physical and separate sites to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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I would want VMware to ensure that when there's a hardware failure on a host, it should gracefully migrate the VMs to another host available in the cluster without restarting, which would be a great improvement.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at First Rand Bank Ltd.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are useful as a product, but the lack of expansion with VMware has led customers to refrain from further upgrades.

Shaun Sheng

Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

A faster firmware lifecycle with the release of validated firmware catalogs more quickly would be a desired improvement.

reviewer2598528

Senior Engineering Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

DataCore SANsymphony offers a flexible, cost-effective solution, yet requires careful assessment of licensing and feature expenses for enterprises.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are initially costly but cost-effective long-term, with competitive pricing and annual licensing considerations.

It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

They have made some improvements regarding the pricing, but it's still too expensive.

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

The cost changed from a perpetual license to a subscription model.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

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As a group under Comcast, we receive very good pricing from Dell due to our considerable business dealings.

reviewer2598528

Senior Engineering Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage management with features like rollback, scalability, synchronous mirroring, auto-tiering, and high data availability.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer compact design, scalability, and robust security, enhancing performance and user experience with single-vendor support.

Customers can extend storage with flexibility, as one is not obligated to purchase hard disks or controllers from the same storage vendor.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

DataCore SANsymphony is improving the access speed of data, the reading, and the writing significantly.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

DataCore SANsymphony has positively impacted our organization because it is scalable and has a fundamental concept that aggregates and pools available storage resources, hiding the complexity, which makes it very simple.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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The benefit of using vSAN is that it's easy to manage on vCenter. You can see if there are issues, get recommendations, and overall, it's highly fault-free which is beneficial because we want to minimize downtime.

Humphrey Hlatshwayo

Systems Engineer at First Rand Bank Ltd.

The ability for single-team management without requiring a separate storage team for managing arrays and fiber channel switches is also a valuable feature.

reviewer2598528

Senior Engineering Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Dell's technical support is generally very good.

Shaun Sheng

Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Ranking in HCI

9th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), Storage Performance (1st)

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes

Ranking in HCI

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of DataCore SANsymphony is 2.7%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

HCI Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	2.7%
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes	2.8%
Other	94.5%

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Featured Reviews

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

High availability and user-friendliness enhance infrastructure health and redundancy

I would rate technical support from DataCore SANsymphony a 10. Each time I contact the technical support, it's when I don't have a choice because it's very difficult for me on site, and each time, I have good people online who are able to help me solve the problem. Usually, the problems are not very technically difficult, but sometimes they are, and the support team is still there to help us resolve them. The majority of the problems are linked to licensing, so when the license has expired or the number is not correct, they are proactive and change things live, which is very good.

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KuldeepSingh4

Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Experience improved efficiency and customer satisfaction with enhanced integration and management capabilities

Scalability involves two types of environments: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and non-VCF environment where we use VMware Validated Foundation. With VCF we have significant automation built-in within the VCF console within SDDC manager as the primary management console. For non-VCF environments, it depends on customer choice. For small environments, we do manual scalability and sometimes use Terraform scripts to keep the host ready and add in the cluster automatically. For large environments with frequent scalability actions, we propose the Terraform solution that builds ESXi, does necessary configuration, and automatically starts up for associating with the existing environment. If scaling is infrequent, with one or two hosts per month, it is a manual job. From a challenge perspective, it seems easier, with just a few pre-checks regarding make and model compatibility, disks, and server health on the hardware level.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?

I am saying that the pricing is reasonable. It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable. It's a good solution and the price is okay regarding the other products.

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What needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?

It's difficult to know how DataCore SANsymphony can be improved. I think DataCore SANsymphony could be deployed on Linux environments, which could be a great thing for clients. I would like to see ...

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What is your primary use case for DataCore SANsymphony?

I usually recommend DataCore SANsymphony for companies in the domain of research, energy, governmental, and education.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

There is no specific licensing model for vSAN ReadyNodes as it is linked with Broadcom VMware's solutions rather than Dell's. As a group under Comcast, we receive very good pricing from Dell due to...

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What needs improvement with Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

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What is your primary use case for Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

I am familiar with VMware Workstation, but we don't actually use a workstation. We only use ESXi because we're running a big organization. We have people that are responsible for a Citrix farm that...

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Also Known As

DataCore Virtual SAN

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Overview

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage environments with features like synchronous mirroring, scalability, and flexibility. It optimizes performance through parallel I/O, ensuring high availability, efficiency, and protection against data loss with hardware independence and user-friendly management.

DataCore SANsymphony offers a robust platform for managing storage in VMware environments and beyond, enabling high-performance storage with disaster recovery features and synchronous mirroring. With hardware independence and real-time data replication, SANsymphony supports virtualization and data protection across distributed data centers, ensuring seamless data access. Users benefit from its ease of use, storage pooling, and auto-tiering, managing different storage speeds efficiently and maximizing uptime. DataCore's hardware-independent active-active setup and management tools add value, though improvements in container support, web capabilities, API robustness, and Linux support are needed. Pricing, licensing, tech support, backup integration with Veeam, iSCSI connectivity, and performance reporting are areas for enhancement.

What are the key features of DataCore SANsymphony?

Synchronous Mirroring: Ensures data protection with high-availability mirroring.
Scalability and Flexibility: Adapts to changing storage needs efficiently.
Parallel I/O: Boosts speed significantly through enhanced performance.
Storage Pooling: Simplifies management across different storage resources.
Auto-Tiering: Manages storage speeds efficiently for optimized performance.

What benefits should users consider in DataCore SANsymphony?

High Availability: Ensures continuous data access with synchronous mirroring.
Disaster Recovery: Provides robust data protection strategies.
Performance Optimization: Parallel I/O boosts overall system speed.
Ease of Use: User-friendly features enhance management and operational efficiency.
Hardware Independence: Offers flexibility in choosing storage hardware.

DataCore SANsymphony finds application in industries focusing on high-performance storage requirements, particularly those in VMware environments. Utilized for managing storage across virtual machines and applications, it supports seamless data access within distributed data centers. The platform's real-time data replication, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, and auto-tiering contribute significantly to optimizing performance and maintaining business continuity.

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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes provide high availability, flexibility, and ease of deployment with integrated storage management designed for seamless VMware integration and IT modernization.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes excel in managing workloads with enhanced storage availability and adaptability. They allow single-team administration, minimizing dependency on multiple vendors and offering robust performance and stability. The user-friendly interface ensures ease of deployment and management, enhancing data protection and operational efficiency. Despite these strengths, challenges like automation, complex upgrades, and licensing limitations affect scalability and cost-efficiency compared to competitors.

What are the key features of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

High Availability: Ensures continuous operations with minimal downtime.
Scalable Architecture: Allows seamless expansion to meet growing demands.
Integrated Storage Management: Streamlines storage operations for ease of use.
User-Friendly Administration: Simplifies management with straightforward policies.
VMware Environment Integration: Enhances IT modernization and security protocols.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost-Effectiveness: Economical options despite encountering pricing rigidity.
Technical Support: Offers strong support services albeit needing improvements in alert systems.
Performance Stability: Reliable performance with enhanced availability.

Organizations deploy Dell vSAN Ready Nodes for general virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, and private cloud setups. They are primarily installed on-premises for managing critical servers, allowing expansion into cloud environments. Popular in sectors like government, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, and insurance, they support VMware vSphere, ERP applications, and virtual desktops efficiently.

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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.

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