We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."Our users are able to easily roll back snapshots without going through IT."
"The tool's most valuable features are scalability and stability."
"Dell PowerScale's performance is good."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"The solution is extremely easy to manage. This is its most valuable feature."
"PowerScale allows us to manage storage without managing RAID groups or migrating volumes between controllers. It has really simplified things. We're not having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. That takes care of itself. We just worry about the data. It's really easy for deploying and managing storage at the petabyte scale."
"Ability to scale the number of nodes without having to build additional clusters."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is all the capabilities together."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"The technical support is great."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"The performance was decent."
"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."
"We had some issues with level 1 support. We had to fight with them on repeated issues. There is room for improvement in level 1 support."
"The only thing that I think PowerScale could do better is improving the HTTP data access protocol. At the present, you cannot protect access to data via HTTP or HTTPS the same way that you can secure data access through other protocols like NFS or SMB[...]the Unified Permission Model that would allow a user to authenticate before being able to access a private file, does not apply."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve the load distribution capability. For example, in some cases, the system load is not distributed automatically on all the nodes but is concentrated only on one. You have a peak request on only one node and the others don't do anything."
"Additional metadata reporting would be great. We have to use a separate tool to report on that. We would like to view the age of data and how long it has been since someone has accessed a file."
"There aren't many templates still coming out for it. They need to provide templates so we can copy and paste what we've done in the past to future, new things."
"The solution isn't suitable for small environments or small customers."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"There is room for improvement with the updates. It can take a significant amount of time to do a major OS update. However, even though it takes multiple reboots, the cluster stays up. If we want to apply a newer version of the OS, we have to roll back some of the patches so that we can upgrade. It requires a few reboots just to do that. The cluster doesn't come down, everything is still running, but it's time-consuming, at times."
"In terms of ransomware, Pure Storage is probably a couple of steps ahead of Hitachi, but Hitachi does not rush in terms of features. They want to be really sure that the hardware works properly without any kind of problem in new environments, and the implementation or improvement does not affect the customer installation. They really want to make sure that customers are not affected in any way."
"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."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"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."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 39 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". 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 PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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