We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is scalable."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reliability."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"Offers excellent features like efficient data reduction, a reliable SafeMode, and a great support model for continuous assistance and updates."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"The latency is good."
"It's incredibly easy to use and greatly simplified our ability to both deploy and manage our storage subsystems."
"The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high."
"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."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"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."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"Performance, reliability, InfoSight, the ability to upgrade the O/S on the SAN without taking it down, and cost."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"Every time I think of something that needs to improve, they're one step ahead, which I love. The only area I wish to see improve, I believe is coming, is in the FlashBlade product. Blade implementation fell short on a few of the services."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"Our use cases require more multi-tenant capabilities and additional VLAN interfaces for separating different customers. We currently use it to provide storage, sometimes shared storage, to different customers, but it is less flexible in comparison to a dedicated solution."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"It is on the expensive side."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"In terms of what could be improved, it could use a better, faster web console and other consoles. It is so boring waiting, waiting and waiting for it to refresh."
"In the next version I would like to see additional features like artificial intelligence and an increase in the amount of data it can store."
"The scalability could be better."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"I would like to see greater integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V platform."
"I don't think it is officially released yet, but the main reason that we chose Nimble is because of the sync rep feature. So, I would like to see that further evolve. This feature will be essential for our setups."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. 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 HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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