We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"Dell PowerStore is an easy and fast tool to work through our company's data."
"You can add compute and capacity independently. We have sized the solution based on our current needs, but in the future we can choose to increase capacity if we grow our activity in the market. And if we have more business in our monetary system, we can increase compute. The ability to choose what we increase is a good feature."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerStore are the support for NVMe and SCM, which provides end-to-end performance and high IOPS, minimizing latency. It is a full-fledged storage solution."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"The support is very good."
"The deduplication functionality provided by the solution is fairly good. The speed offered by the product is enough for our organization."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The solution is very user-friendly in terms of maintenance and configuration. It's also possible to connect the solution to other storage management solutions."
"The performance is very good."
"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."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"There are certain shortcomings with the technical support team of Dell PowerStore, where improvements are required."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell XtremIO, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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