We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."Its scalability has been huge for us."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The flexibility and the user-friendly interface are the most valuable features."
"There are also the policies that you set up on replication and purging files, and policies for something called WORM. That's a "write once, read many," where you can't overwrite certain files or certain data. It puts them in a "protected mode" where it becomes very difficult for someone to accidentally delete. We use that for certain files or certain directories, because we're dealing with video and some video has to be protected for chain-of-custody purposes. The WORM feature works great."
"The guaranteed performance, combined with the scalability through its scale-out capability, makes it an excellent choice."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"The performance is very good."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The management and monitoring tools comprise a disparate suite of products and the roadmap is very unclear. We've got four different products that look after the Isilon, management-wise, and it's a bit of a mess."
"The solution's rate structure or rate redundancy needs to be improved."
"The cost of Dell PowerScale is currently high and there is room for improvement."
"Some improvements to the NFS support would be of interest to us."
"Data storage performance needs to be improved."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"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 distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 39 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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