We performed a comparison between Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL], Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, and VMAX [EOL] 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."The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right."
"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 product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"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."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"The exterior display needs to be improved."
"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 installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"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."
"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."
"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"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."
"One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage systems. There are four or five such solutions. Maybe these could be combined in the future."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"The cluster support should be improved."
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