DataCore SANsymphony vs Veritas Volume Manager [EOL] comparison

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DataCore SANsymphony

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97% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), HCI (10th), Storage Performance (1st)

Veritas Volume Manager [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

Storage platform has improved data performance and has provided reliable support for my clients

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 the stabilization of the Veeam implementation in the future, and perhaps the integration or officialization of compatibility with Proxmox and XCP-ng. With Proxmox, it wasn't easy while integrating it with third-party solutions. It's working, but it was a bit difficult to deploy.

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it_user1131

Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Veritas Volume Manager is a robust product part of the Veritas Storage Foundation suite by Symantec. It is designed to ease the management of rapidly growing IT environments and above all provide consistency and availability of data.

• Veritas Volume Manager is available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, allowing a standard solution design and facilitating support for large and diverse environments • Veritas DMP (Dynamic Multi Pathing) works great. Multi-path software effectively detects SAN failures and bottlenecks, enabling high data availability and good performance • Perform regular maintenance tasks such as filesystem increase or even decrease (only for Veritas File System) on the fly • Symantec support does a really good job. The few times it was needed, they provided excellent and timely results

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."

"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."

"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."

"CDP is an important feature for avoiding data loss in the event of ransomware attacks. You need more storage capacity, however, you get the possibility to return at any time and use the data saved up to that point. The recovery is much faster than with a classic restore."

"The DataCore system has been rock solid since we have been using it - from 2007 on."

"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."

"Redundancy and improved performance in terms of storage with auto-tiering are the most valuable features."

"The solution has 100% storage availability and we've had that for more than ten years."

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"Symantec support and documentation are very good, and pricing in most cases proves to be worth it when taking into consideration the benefits of its implementation."

Cons

"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."

"In my opinion, there should be improvements in how to get and filter logs."

"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."

"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."

"One area where the solution could improve is its software platform. Many customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the software running on Microsoft Windows."

"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."

"Deduplication works but implementing it is complex."

"The alert system could have more features."

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"Although it is easy to perform regular maintenance tasks, Veritas Volume Manager is hard to master."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product has a good ratio between quality and price. In many cases, it's less expensive to work with DataCore than other storage systems."

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

"It is relatively expensive, and the additional costs for hardware and storage can make it a significant investment for customers."

"DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is very high and should be much cheaper."

"The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore."

"This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage."

"We have licensing costs on a yearly basis. They charge per terabyte, so in terms of cost, it can be very costly. They have three different features, and you have to pay extra for those."

"The solution is cost effective."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

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Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

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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 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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Also Known As

DataCore Virtual SAN

Volume Manager, Symantec Volume Manager

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.

DataCore

Volume Manager enhances data storage management by controlling space allocation, performance, data availability, device installation, and system monitoring of private and shared systems.

Veritas

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.

Barnabas Health, Batten & Allen, Aviareto, A_roport Toulouse-Blagnac, Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa, Maxim Employee Benefits Ltd.

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