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.
"Technical support is good."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"Before we used Pure Storage it took 93 days of employees who run the database to back up and restore databases. The scale of deployment basically went from several days to a few minutes."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"It is a stable solution."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"The solution is not cheap."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"Reporting is an area that could be improved. It's very simplistic sometimes, and some of the very technical guys on my team want to see more of the details and be able to massage the report a little bit better."
"The customer service and support are bad."
"The only area I can highlight for improvement is that the 4:1 data reduction target has not been reached. This may be due to an issue with Dell EMC's initial analysis of data compression. As a result, we have had to add new physical disks to reach our goal of total available disk space."
"The price is on the higher side."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"There is no Synchronize replication feature on the storage."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"We have not been able to procure more discs for upcoming projects and this has been a problem for us. Not having additional storage is going to be an issue. The solution is at its end of life and will be replaced soon."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"The life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
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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 "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Huawei OceanStor, 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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