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."This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The reliability is very good."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"The way it takes the Snaps, that is one of the best features. Snapshot performance is what is key in the Unity, compared to a traditional VNX."
"It's easy to handle for administrators and it's a unified system. It's not as complex as Celerra systems or CX4 Clariions to administrate. You can do everything with one GUI."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"Veeam Backup integration: Veeam is the defacto standard for backing up of virtual environments."
"We particularly like the user interface on cloud IQ with this product."
"For our customers, it's the simplicity of it. They find it easy to use, along with the added features, the dynamic volumes."
"We can sleep at night because the support is great."
"This solution makes it easy to manage storage, provision new workloads, and scale-up."
"What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The technical support is great."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"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."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"The price could be better."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"I'd like to see more of the NVMe back-end for the flash. And the big deal with the PowerMax is that they've used all U2 drives so that they can avoid having to take it down. I see using M.2 and modular sections as being a real nice alternative that could be implemented in Unity at a fairly low cost."
"If you compare it with VMAX, where we communicate with the box through Solutions Enabler and there are a lot of commands and a lot of flexibility, the command line for Unity needs to enhanced."
"I would like the UI to look better."
"Dell could improve Unity XT by adding support for NVMe."
"There are a lot of things that can be done with it. It's got Cloud IQ, but I think it's not as mature as it could be, they could make it more effective. They could make it more comparable to some of the other products out there that have cloud analytics. The amount of insight that the Unity product is able to give, at this point, is okay, but not class-leading. Some of the other data-reduction technologies, like deduplication, are not to the level of other competitors and what their products provide."
"Dell EMC's competitor has a clustering technology. In the next release, it would be nice if they could build that into the product."
"There is no de-duplication. Unity used to be Bionics, which had de-duplication; however, in Dell Unity XT, the de-duplication was deprecated and is no longer available."
"We'd like to see a cheaper version of an all-flash array in that footprint."
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"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."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
"In terms of what could be improved, it could use a better, faster web console and other consoles. It is so boring waiting, waiting and waiting for it to refresh."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
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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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