We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"The technical support is good."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"The updating process could be easier."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"he list of hardware supported should be increased in the future."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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