We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Frame-Based Disk Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."
"It's very scalable, especially with federation. If you outgrow the number of spindles that a unit can support, depending on the model, you can go into federation."
"I've found the stability to be very good."
"The performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"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."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"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 setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"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."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"From a performance point of view, it's getting a bit old."
"One option I would like to see is, when you're up on the view-screen, to be able to incorporate getting to what HPE call the iLO, the Integrated Lights-Out. To be able to get that instead of having to go back and trying to find IP addresses and re-institute those would be good. It would be good to be able to that put on the initial splash screen."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 48 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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