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."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The product offers high stability."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"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 high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"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."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"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 of the solution is SCM (Storage Class Memory), which has the lowest latency value in the storage industry."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"The initial setup was really straightforward. It was not complex. Deployment took one month, due to the data migration duration."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"Virtualization of external storage, while adding cache and speed to the external storage."
"IBM FlashSystem is a powerful effective storage solution. Additionally, it is user-friendly, anyone can use it."
"The valuable features for us are the extra add-ons, such as the FIM provisioning, the compression, the disaster recovery capabilities, and the storage pooling functions."
"The speed, performance, and stability are the best features of IBM FlashSystem."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"The initial setup was difficult, as we don't have access to assistance. We had some issues around configuration. We needed to know things like what kind of rate is the best, or what kind of replication is ideal. We had to seek out answers online to get the information we needed."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
"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."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It takes a lot of time to study the product and it's a little complicated in general."
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"Additional licenses might be added for the fundamental licenses, such as those for copying and flash copies."
"The storage capacity of this solution could be improved."
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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 "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". 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, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. IBM FlashSystem report.
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