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."Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The reliability is very good."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"The sales and executive support have been outstanding compared to the rest of the market... My upgrade paths have been simple on the Pure... It's a lot simpler to implement and a lot simpler to manage."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"There's some new stuff coming with 7.3, which just got released, where they're spreading the sparing across the whole array, rather than having a dedicated spare disk, and have it sit there and do nothing until one of them dies, and then it kicks in - and having to rebuild all of that. Now, they'll do the sparing across all the disks and they say that is going to add not only space but performance to the array, with 7.3."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"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."
"The setup is straightforward."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"With federation, you can have multiple systems across sites. You can treat them as one, and with a live migration, volumes don't go down. You can move them from site to site, doing maintenance, and keep your environment up."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The product offers high stability."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The technical support is great."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"It needs to improve its price."
"While the price is competitive, in the next release it would be better if they could reduce the fees."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"The connection should be better integrated with the network to offer a better view of the system."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"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."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"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."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"The initial setup was difficult, as we don't have access to assistance. We had some issues around configuration. We needed to know things like what kind of rate is the best, or what kind of replication is ideal. We had to seek out answers online to get the information we needed."
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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 NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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