We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The price was right."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The solution is stable."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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