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, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"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."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"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 most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"This solution is resilient."
"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."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"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."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"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."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"The cluster support should be improved."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 48 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 "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". 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 Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas VMAX [EOL] is most compared with .
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