We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and IBM FlashSystem 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."It simplifies building out the storage."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"Technical support is good."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"The performance is very good."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"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."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"The maintenance service and support from IBM is very good."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"User friendly management interface."
"When it comes to the interface of the solution we did not encounter any challenges. Additionally, the solution has good documentation."
"This solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is replication...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"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 GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"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."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors."
"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 user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
"AHV is Acropolis Hypervisor – A relatively new Hypervisor, robust and stable as VMware vSphere, has built-in advanced analytics and powerful operations, Self Service Portal and components for DevOps included, managed by a single pane of glass (Prism) via HTML5 and it is free of charge – That is why Nutanix is so advanced and revolutionary."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"IBM FlashSystems is lagging in optimizing storage technologies."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"Our model does not support compression or deduplication."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 4th in NAS with 106 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage and Dell PowerMax NVMe. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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