We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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."Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"User friendly interface"
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are its stability, performance, and ease of updating."
"There has been no downtime. It has built-in redundancy upon redundancy."
"The product has helpful local technical support."
"The replication is big for us. We use file services on Unity and it has a really nice file services interface. It's also easy to manage. It's really easy in terms of provisioning, replication. There are no real tricks to it. It's just easy."
"It is scalable. We can add additional tools if we need to expand it."
"Ease of use is probably number one, compared to the previous storage that we've had. Easy scalability, easy set up. Compared to everything else, the Unity is, well, you could call it child's play. As long as you know what you're doing storage-wise, Unity is really easy to use."
"We can sleep at night because the support is great."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The performance is very good."
"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."
"The product offers high stability."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"The solution is very user-friendly in terms of maintenance and configuration. It's also possible to connect the solution to other storage management solutions."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"Our request to Dell EMC for improvement was in the reporting and monitoring areas. Dell EMC built up a cloud ID so that we could see the overall storage numbers. We needed to have the proper KPIs to be able to see and manage things."
"I would like the device to have the ability to pull down its own firmware. That would be a great thing."
"You can't use every feature, because it costs in performance. Therefore, you have to choose which features to use to achieve a better environment. That is why customers do not use every feature in Unity."
"I would like to see a more seamless virtual box integration with the physical box which can replicate, because the setup of the replication is very difficult right now."
"Dell EMC Unity is not sexy. It doesn't have all the flash and pizzazz of some of the other storage vendors."
"I miss storage groups. Now, if I have to add a LUN to a cluster, multiple host, I have to know which host is in that cluster. I have to write it down and that makes it hard. In VNX and earlier, I could simply put a LUN on a storage group and every host in the group had the LUN. This lack bothers me a lot because it takes a lot of time and mistakes are made. Sometimes, a Hyper-V host gets a VMware LUN and vice-versa. Not good."
"The user interface could use improvement."
"I think that they could do a better job of testing on the back-end, for the code revisions. I've heard of some issues down the line where people have upgraded to the latest code and there were bugs in it, and they had to release a subsequent code fix."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"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."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 29 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 17 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Price / Quality ratio is good and since OE 5.03 code the array family reached a rather good maturity level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "A robust and dependable product that ensures a 100 percent data availability guarantee". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE Primera, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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