We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Primera based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The interface is simplified."
"The most valuable feature of HPE Primera is its performance and simple replication."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most important thing that we had found when we purchased this product around six months back was its 100% availability and uptime."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the artificial intelligence for the storage inside of the software and firmware because customers do not like functionalities which require manual interruption."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"There has been a lot of changes in HPE Primera OS, and most of the time any package related to it is simple to upgrade. It does not require any support for the operation. The customer can easily deploy any code directly from the GUI which is very good. Additionally, we have individual storage we can allocate and easily manage."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"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."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"I would like to see improved training offered with HPE Primera."
"We have not had a good experience with support from HPE Primera. They can improve."
"Only HPE can manage the product."
"We used to receive hardware errors a lot of times. The ambient temperatures rise rate was approximately 35 to 55 degrees, but when it was approximately 27 or 28, we used to get errors a lot."
"The solution has good performance but it could improve further."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"The product’s price needs improvement."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 17 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 19 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "A robust and dependable product that ensures a 100 percent data availability guarantee". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A tool that offers quality, stability, scalability, and features that are good for storage purposes". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF and Huawei OceanStor. See our HPE Primera vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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