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"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.""The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point.""Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good.""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.""The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints.""I am happy about the storage system and availability.""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."

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"The interface is good, and it is also customizable.""Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever.""We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay.""A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service.""It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology.""This solution is resilient.""We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems.""VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."

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Cons
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use.""Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors.""The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up.""We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like.""The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage.""In the next version I would like to see more intelligence.""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.""The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."

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"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers.""Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved.""I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem.""The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement.""The cluster support should be improved.""Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction.""The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore.""I would like to see support for high-availability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing we get is very competitive when compared to other vendors. Hitachi is working on their licensing model and it is improving but can be irksome when many different items are not bundled or enterprise size."
  • "Our main issue with the Hitachi G-Series is what we consider to be an archaic software licensing scheme and high maintenance costs."
  • "It is a little expensive."
  • "I would like to see better pricing and more discounts."
  • "Pricing could be better, because the cost is very high."
  • "This solution is cheaper than Dell EMC VMAX. When you are looking for a high-end solution, price matters, but availability and stability are more important than the price."
  • "This is an expensive solution."
  • "When you are looking for high-end solutions such as this, price is less important than stability and availability."
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  • "There are additional costs to the standard licensing fee, and it just depends on the package."
  • "Our licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
  • "Our licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast.
    Top Answer:One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage systems. There are four or five such solutions. Maybe these could be combined in the… more »
    Top Answer:We're only using the F Series in our lab for hosting lab infrastructure for all our colleagues. We needed fast storage.
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    Also Known As
    Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform N Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series
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    Overview

    RETHINK YOUR DEFINITION OF SPEED AND PERFORMANCE

    With adaptive, guaranteed data reduction and a 100% data-availability guarantee, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series helps you tackle complicated business challenges. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) VSP F series delivers up to 4.8M IOPS with sub-millisecond response times.
    Featuring legendary Hitachi reliability, VSP F series arrays are backed by the industries only 100% availability guarantee. For these reasons, 80% of the Fortune 500 choose Hitachi all-flash arrays to accelerate the performance of mission-critical applications like Oracle, SAP, Virtualization, Microsoft apps etc. With over 350 patents in flash technology, Hitachi’s innovative mix of flash hardware and software accelerates ROI with enterprise-class reliability and performance.

    Symmetrix VMAX accelerate your transformation to the software-defined data center with the world's most powerful, trusted, and smart family of storage products.
    Sample Customers
    Turkcell, Owens Corning, Region Nord, Net Credit Financial Group (NFC Group), Russian Railways
    Wentworth-Douglas Hospital, Kindred Healthcare, Cosentry, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, Shriners, BZWBK
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider21%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm38%
    Healthcare Company23%
    Government8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise58%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise67%

    Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 47 reviews while VMAX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Frame-Based Disk Arrays. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while VMAX [EOL] is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMAX [EOL] writes "Offers seamless data compression and encryption with no impact on performance". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .

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