"100% available over the last 10 years"
What do you like best?
Because of the built-in 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 seamlessly active. Also the user-friendly admin interface helps new IT staff to handle the software when they are new in the company.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We have a very small in-house IT Team, and our systems have to be 100% available. DataCore helps us to reach this. Another plus is the price when you compare it to competitors, e.g., Dell EMC. DataCore often releases best practice guides that help you to configure the software and the systems that host it. You don't have to be a deep dive technician to get the most out of the software.
"DataCore SDS – Very Powerful!"
How would you describe DataCore SDS to a friend or colleague?
A very powerful piece of software for storage virtualization. A market leader from my point of view.
"Flexible / Stable Product, Excellent Support. Full SDS Solution Unhooked From Vendors"
“All needed documentation is available online: this helps to build projects quickly and effectively. Top-level tech support with excellent response time. Product functionalities and management tools are very good. Full-software licensing policy makes us free to move to a completely different hardware solution in the future if needed.”
"Data fast accesss"
Data through put is good
Pros:
It gives more speed of read and write of the data and easy management.
Cons:
Nothing as such to mention.
"Datacore SANsymphony"
Storage optimization, no need to spend so much amount on SAN or NAS , thin-provisioning his huge saving.
Pros:
I love write cache of this product. it work well and increases the performance Grouping of heterogeneous storage and intelligent tiering Storage optimization and de-duplication really good Concept of software SAN is really useful thin-provisioning Its user friendly. Good monitoring and performance reports Over all i would say this is wonderful storage virtualization software.
Cons:
More features need in Alerting system and health checks.
“DataCore SAN Symphony: Storage virtualization software”
Its been a decent experience until now and its been almost 3 years since I used this product.
Pros:
DataCore SAN Symphony is one of the best software defined storage virtualization software for small enterprises who can't afford SAN/NAS storage hardware. It helps in creating software defined storage environments for VDI environments which can provide optimization of storage by combing SSDs and HDD which gives you auto tiering option especially for hyper-v environments.
Cons:
Works well with Windows Hyper-v however on other hypervisor platforms DataCore SAN Symphony is not a suitable option and licenses are also expensive which basically depends on the amount of storage being considered for virtualization.
"Provides High Performance And Business-Critical Storage"
What is our primary use case?
It provides high performance and business-critical storage.
How has it helped my organization?
Less downtime, higher availability, and reliable operations.
What is most valuable?
Synchronous mirror with transparent failover, high performance, CDP, thin provisioning, and easy management. These features greatly simplify operations and provide high availability for data and operations.
Good Performance, Saves Money, And Has Eliminated Our Storage-Related Downtime
What is most valuable?
Performance boost (MegaCash, Parallel I/O technology) and Continuous data protection (CDP) are the features we love most because security and being productive are big points for us. DataCore is helping us focus on our core business and keep it running, which is important for our customer success. Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money.
How has it helped my organization?
In the time of using DataCore SANsymphony Hyperconverged Infrastructure, we had no storage-related downtime in our environment. The server and storage functionality works, and maintenance is easier to handle depending on the redundancy. DataCore is an administrator's and users' friend.
How would you describe DataCore SDS to a friend or colleague?
DataCore SDS is a tool that provides high performance, disk-volume mirroring, and high availability to your SAN infrastructure.
In a few sentences, describe the biggest benefits you have seen since implementing DataCore storage virtualization software:
SAN Mirroring has provided highly-available SAN volumes and protected the data center from outages during critical data processing periods.
An IT Administrator at a medium enterprise retail company would be very likely to recommend DataCore for this reason:
Because they have very good Support and their software is good and fast!
A Flexible And Efficient Solution For Disaster Recovery
How has it helped my organization?
DataCore has been doing software-defined storage since back before SDS was even a buzzword. It has provided a great deal of flexibility, performance, and efficiency for our Enterprise SAN. We are not tied to any one hardware vendor and over the nineteen years that we've had DataCore, we have gone through various models of IBM servers to Dell servers as well as various storage arrays from IBM, Dot Hill, XIO, Kaminario, and Dell (all with some of the same data from year one).
What is most valuable?
DataCore's ability to seamlessly move virtual volume data between storage pools as well as their synchronous mirroring has made maintenance and disaster recovery planning achievable. DataCore's auto-tiering feature also allows us to use our SSD arrays efficiently.
Auto-Tiering Improves Performance By Automatically Balancing Demands For Storage
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is auto-tiering, which allows for storage pools containing different speed storage systems and the data automatically moved to the most appropriate pool.
How has it helped my organization?
DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range.
