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SANsymphony

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What is SANsymphony?

DataCore SANsymphony software-defined storage aims to deliver flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency in a HCI platform. Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology, SANsymphony is designed to provide flexibility to control how data is stored, protected, and accessed. The vendor states users can ensure business continuity with just 2 nodes, easily scaling out to 64 nodes, and achieve productivity for performance-demanding workloads by improving I/O processing and reducing read and write latency.

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Software-Defined Storage Leader

Julien GUILLAUMOUView profile
CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at INTEGRA SYSTEMS (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DataCore SanSymphony enables redundancy for business continuity and to secure data. We use it to ensure the first backup with the CDP and Snapshots functionalities. DataCore SanSymphony enables legacy, converged, and hyperconverged architectures with a single product and creates hybrid infrastructures that mix these architectures in order to cover all possible constraints. Because the product is reliable, we perform all demonstrations and training on our production environment for our customers and prospects.

Pros

  • The mirroring feature synchronous or asynchronous
  • simplicity of management
  • Best Customer Support

Cons

  • No Compression deduplication at this time
  • Multiple nodes obligation for large infrastructures

Most Important Features

  • Synchronous Mirroring
  • Continuous Data Protection
  • Replication and Site Recovery
  • Parallel I/O

Return on Investment

  • Easily scalable infrastructure
  • Better storage performance
  • the deduplication / compression functionality is not yet ready

Alternatives Considered

VMware vSAN

Other Software Used

VMware vSAN, Dell EMC Unity, Huawei OceanStor, Veeam Backup & Replication

Gain peace of mind and performance with SANsymphony

DEVANLAY FranckView profile
Ingénieur systèmes at Monaco Digital | Avangarde (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DataCore SANsymphony is a product that I recommend in pre-sales, that I install and maintain for customers who need to maintain a high level of IT system available for their users. With RTO/RPO/RTA close to zero, it is one of the best data security solutions that I recommend to the majority of my company's client companies.

Pros

  • Synchronous mirroring
  • CDP
  • Autotiering
  • Support's Team

Cons

  • Automatic Shared Multi-Port Array

Most Important Features

  • Synchronous mirroring
  • CDP
  • Autotiering
  • Support's team

Return on Investment

  • It's an agnostic solution that works on any hardware platform
  • RPO/RTO/RTA close to zero

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Veeam Backup & Replication, Hyper-V

Hyper-Converged SANsymphony is a must-see

Incentivized
Scott Lambourne
System Administrator in Corporate at Superior Water And Air (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Speed is remarkable.
  • Easy to allocate data space needs.
  • Very easy to administrate.
  • Customer assistance is fantastic.

Cons

  • Our needs are very small when compared to what this product can do. We don't use all of what it is capable of doing. Honestly, I have no cons.

Return on Investment

  • ROI has been fantastic. Since purchasing it, I have not had it once go down in the 3 years I have had it.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication

Fantastic Software. Terrible Support.

Incentivized
Andrew Bouwhuis
Network System Administrator in Legal at LANprofessionals (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • It has really helped with I/O.
  • Manages our storage more simply.
  • Gives us a way to do replication easily.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • It has significantly increased the speed and therefore the effectiveness of our database.
  • It has simplified and made our data infrastructure more robust.
  • It provides an easy solution for offsite replication.

Alternatives Considered

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Other Software Used

Hyper-V, Veeam Backup & Replication, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

SANsymphony 10

Fernando VillamilView profile
LAN Engineer in Information Technology at Maimonides Medical Center (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Fast pools should go to your most used data, and not static files.
  • Redundancy is a must for all aspects of our IT jobs. Who wants to explain when there's no data?
  • Works on Windows server 2012/2016 much better. Solid stability.

Cons

  • The performance metrics could use some help. I can see what my storage usage and latency is.

Return on Investment

  • Very positive. We get requests to be added to the SAN.
  • Don't have to think about it. Solid stability.