We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Simple and extremely reliable."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"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."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"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."
"At the moment, I don't see any room for improvement in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series because my experience with the product is very good. The software is okay and you can manage the storage well. What I'd like to see in the next release of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is for it to be a real NAS solution because right now, you need to use a Hitachi converter called HNAS which makes the process a little bit more expensive. In my opinion, Hitachi should look into the possibility of unifying the HNAS into full storage, meaning that the HNAS should be integrated into the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
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Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 4th in NAS with 47 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 7.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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