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.
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"We have simplified it down to where we're using one storage pool inside the Unity, whereas on the VNX, we had multiple storage pools. This has simplified that aspect for us. It would depend on each organization. We're heavy into VMware and this ties into it so simply. It's made it a lot easier for us. I create a datastore inside Unity, it just shows up in VMware. I love that tie-in."
"I have found Dell EMC Unity XT to be stable."
"Its main advantage over vSAN was the rebuild, the intelligence of the restoration in the event of a hardware drive failure and, of course, the all-flash solution."
"It is definitely one of the most robust, solid, well-performing products that I have dealt with. It is set it and forget it, which is pretty amazing."
"The hardware itself, it differs from Compellent and differs from the VNX before it. It doesn't have a separate file harbor that goes with it, there are no separate NAS heads. It's 2U, you have file and block storage, so you get a quite a lot of services for a small footprint."
"It is great because it can work as a SAN and net storage."
"I like Unity XT's software-defined storage. It's a new feature that isn't widely used yet, but customers are impressed with it."
"Integration; We use the product with VMware, and also use it with Syft for home directory and departmental shares."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"In terms of performance and ability, the product can stand up against its competitors since the solution offers two controller systems to users."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"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."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"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."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"The pre-sales technical support and technical engagement could be made better for this product."
"A customer had to buy VMX because Unity didn't have WORM."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"Firmware Upgrades in EMC Unity require you to manually download OS and Drive firmware, this should be integrated (Nimble does this). When you order an EMC Unity, you have to specify the block size. This is weird for me and even weirder that you cannot change this afterwards, you should be able to specify per LUN/datastore (Nimble does this as well)."
"I would like to see better compression, better dedupe. It's not nearly as good as what is built into the XtremIO. I understand why that is the case, but if they can take some of that technology and leverage that a little bit better in the Unity array, that would be great."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"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."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
"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 186 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 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 "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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