We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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."It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"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."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"This solution has improved our organization in the way that we used to see latency but now with this solution we don't. It also has good performance. Latencies have come down for our performance in the SQL databases. We can put a lot more in a lot less in terms of space savings. We also save data center space have good deduplication."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"This solution is very scalable."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"We're consolidating two to three arrays down to one which means that our data center footprint has decreased by like 90%. So we're saving 90% of our space, and it also is much better on power and everything else in our data center. And on top of that, the performance is much, much better than our older arrays."
"The most valuable feature is the performance and compression. The most useful tool is CloudIQ."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"A huge benefit of the PowerMax has been the decreasing of our physical footprint. We recently did a consolidation where we went from 58 tiles down to 5. If we had used just the PowerMax, we could have gone from 58 tiles down to 2 tiles, which is huge space savings. If you have 56 newly available floor tiles on a raised floor data center, which you previously had to cool and provide power to, then now, not only are my costs going down, I now have more revenue opportunities because I have more space to put new customers."
"The number one most valuable feature is reliability. I want to go home at the end of the day and come in the next day knowing it works, especially since we have storage offshore."
"PowerMax NVMe has made it a lot easier to understand how much we are able to provision. It has made it a lot faster to provision new things. 90% of my time for provisioning has been reduced. Also, it has made it very easy to understand and see everything behind it versus the older heritage, where Dell EMC was very convoluted and hard to get working. Things that used to take an hour, probably now take five to 10 minutes."
"We use ESRS for our call-home, and a lot of times, Dell EMC will respond to the issue before we even know it."
"The SRDF replication piece is probably the best feature. It's useful for maintaining recoverability in the event of a disaster."
"In terms of performance and ability, the product can stand up against its competitors since the solution offers two controller systems to users."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Setting up PowerMax with VMAX is always complex."
"The GUI interface is very complicated and could be improved by streamlining the number of steps in the process."
"I would like the scalability to improve, as it requires additional footprints."
"I hear from people on my team that they would like improved reporting. While there are some decent tools for doing reporting, they would like to see a lot more built-in functionality. This way when they are logged into the interface everyday doing basic management tasks, they could also see some statistics on what is their storage pool usage and will be their projected usage with their current data growth. They want to be able to see more detailed stats on how they are using the system and have forecasting."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe needs to increase storage and improve scalability."
"Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS."
"The main feature that I personally want to see is the possibility to upgrade to the next generation without changing all the components and just change the engine, relying on the compatibility matrices between two different generations. Meaning that we could just keep the enclosure and upgrade the engine, integrating the enclosure to the existing pool, then adding automation tools for orchestration."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"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."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp AFF, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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