We performed a comparison between Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."It's actually very stable"
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"It worked flawlessly."
"Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"The performance was decent."
"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 most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The exterior display needs to be improved."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"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."
"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."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
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Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Frame-Based Disk Arrays while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 48 reviews. Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] is rated 10.0, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] writes "Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series.
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