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.
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"Support has been helpful."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"Has a great mapping feature."
"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."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"Its flexibility is valuable because we have had some moments where we had to adapt, and it has been quite flexible."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The performance was decent."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"We are looking for the Dell PowerStore to become more mature to maximize our use cases."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"The NAS part is very poor. It's very basic. Even Dell EMC has said that to us. We are waiting for version 3 of PowerStore for that. This must be improved and it is in the roadmap."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"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."
"After the smooth launch of the product in our company, only the areas around upgrades are a bit problematic. In our organization, we face difficulties when updating the product."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
"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."
"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."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
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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 "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell XtremIO, 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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