We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience."
"The performance was decent."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The performance is very good."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
"For the support windows to work, maybe they have to upgrade the firmware of the VSP. They changed the hardware or the disk. I don't know if it was the port blade they changed or a VM for a memory cache. Also, replacing the old target with the processor target would be fine. The old equipment is very easy to manage, and I don't have any bad commentary."
"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."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"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."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series.
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