We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, Dell Technologies, IBM and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."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."
"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."
"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."
"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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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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