We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"It offers data compression and people management."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Better performance and lower costs."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"The product is flexible."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."
"Right now, the box itself is just strictly working as a backend storage system. It would be fantastic if we could access it directly like a NAS device through network access or SIS drives. I think they have an interface, but I am not sure how good it is. If we could address a box directly on the network without having to go through a server, it would be great. The replication schemas could be improved. We are not using replication on the storage level right now. We use a different type of replication. If their replication would be as good as the one that we have, I would probably run the replication schema because it might be faster, but I don't know that for a fact. So, I cannot say that they have good replication. All I can say is that they need to inform us better."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"The software layer has to improve."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"Needs more SAN support."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"The user interface could be improved."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 4th in NAS with 49 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 98 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Hitachi NAS Platform. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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