We performed a comparison between Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"The stability, speed, and reliability are the solution's best features. The information is also very secure."
"I like the performance aspect of EF Series. It basically provides everything that we are looking for as a solution, very low latency and very high performance."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The price should be lower."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The exterior display needs to be improved."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"The management interface, while very reliable, it seems a little old now and could maybe use a little modernization."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"This solution has limited storage."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"There could be an improvement when it comes to SLA support, it could be faster."
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Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] is rated 10.0, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] writes "Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] is most compared with , whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera.
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