SANsymphony vs. StorMagic SvSAN

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SANsymphony
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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…N/A
StorMagic SvSAN
Score 8.0 out of 10
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StorMagic SvSAN is a hyperconverged storage solution that provides lightweight, high availability in 2-node clusters. It allows organizations to deploy thousands of clusters as easily as one, on any x86 hardware, to ensure 100% uptime.N/A
Pricing
SANsymphonyStorMagic SvSAN
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Pricing Offerings
SANsymphonyStorMagic SvSAN
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
SANsymphonyStorMagic SvSAN
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
SANsymphonyStorMagic SvSAN
Likelihood to Recommend
DataCore Software
Now that you have virtualized your server's CPU and memory resources, you should look to do the same for your storage. Separation of hardware and software has many added benefits not only for CPUs and memory but for storage as well. Without this solution, we would not have been able to afford black-box type SANs at every location. This allowed us to virtualize over 90% of the server environment saving costs and power consumption/cooling and provides all the features costly black-box SANs, including true-HA (which most SAN vendors don't have). Migration from variant SAN storage and using mixed back-end storage solutions is as easier than ever before because the storage being virtualized.
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StorMagic
The StorMagic SvSAN solution is certainly suitable for two-node architectures where business continuity is required at a reasonable price, with a workload that is not particularly complex. It is not the right solution if you have a virtual environment with a large number of VMs and workloads that require high performance.
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Pros
DataCore Software
  • 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.
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StorMagic
  • Storage Mirroring
  • Low Price
  • Easy deploy
  • Easy management
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Cons
DataCore Software
  • 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.
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StorMagic
  • Technical support could be improved
  • Inadequate performance for complex environments
  • Architecture needs a witness
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Likelihood to Renew
DataCore Software
I'm currently in the process of renewing my support.
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StorMagic
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Usability
DataCore Software
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StorMagic
Deploying the solution is fairly simple. A system administrator with basic data centre knowledge can configure the StorMagic SvSAN suite independently by following the guides provided. Troubleshooting is greatly simplified thanks to the features available in the management interface. The dashboard allows you to easily manage the technology thanks to a very intuitive and well-designed interface.
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Support Rating
DataCore Software
In the 3 years I have been running this, I have contacted support around 4 or 5 times and that was for minor questions with exception of one time when I was performing an update on the system. And in that one time, they were very timely in assisting me with correcting the problem. Top notch customer support!
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StorMagic
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Alternatives Considered
DataCore Software
DataCore is far easier to manage as well as deal with when it comes to hardware (as DataCore works with any hardware). It also seems way more affordable.
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StorMagic
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Return on Investment
DataCore Software
  • More uptime - Typical SANs have redundant controllers, redundant power supply's and can make the drives redundant by leveraging RAID-0, 5, 6, and 10. The claim to be HA but they are not. That is because if I spay water all over them or catch the SAN on fire, the storage will go down. With DataCore's solution we have identical systems (maybe even at different datacenters connected with long-haul-fiber) including duplicate storage. So one side of the solution can totally be taken offline by water, fire, etc. and the other side will remain up providing true-HA storage. Because of this, we can upgrade the SANs during the day and still keep storage services running (zero-downtime).
  • Lower Costs - Ability to use 3rd party hardware which lowers the costs, not only for the initial investment but as storage capacity grows.
  • All the features one can want - High Availability, Thin Provisioning, Asynchronous and Synchronous mirroring/replication, snap-shotting, continues data protection, deduplication, storage reporting, trending with graphs, centralized console for easier management and many more.
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StorMagic
  • High resiliency of infrastructure
  • Respect low budget
  • No waste time for management
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ScreenShots

StorMagic SvSAN Screenshots

Screenshot of StorMagic SvSAN plugin in VMware vCenter. SvSAN is fully integrated and certified in vCenter for seamless deployment and configuration.Screenshot of StorMagic SvSAN web GUI. Management of all SvSAN nodes and clusters can be carried out in the GUI.Screenshot of StorMagic SvSAN is managed through the StorMagic Edge Control dashboard which provides users with a real-time overview of every SvSAN license they have deployed.Screenshot of StorMagic Edge Control systems view which allows users to browse, sort and filter every SvSAN VSA as well as explore each one and check status and perform management actions.