We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"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."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Systems run solidly."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"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 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."
"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."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". 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 Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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