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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The solution is stable."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"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."
"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."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The line migration is a problem."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"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."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th 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, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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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