We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Kaminario K2 [EOL] 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."Having fast storage allows actual servers to perform in high capacity so we don't have slowdowns on our applications."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The scalability is good."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The technical support is great."
"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 product provides a good storage space."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Logic/software management"
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"We have not been able to procure more discs for upcoming projects and this has been a problem for us. Not having additional storage is going to be an issue. The solution is at its end of life and will be replaced soon."
"In terms of ransomware, Pure Storage is probably a couple of steps ahead of Hitachi, but Hitachi does not rush in terms of features. They want to be really sure that the hardware works properly without any kind of problem in new environments, and the implementation or improvement does not affect the customer installation. They really want to make sure that customers are not affected in any way."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage systems. There are four or five such solutions. Maybe these could be combined in the future."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"The life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
"In the next version I would like to see additional features like artificial intelligence and an increase in the amount of data it can store."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"I'm hoping to see Active Directory integration. Right now, you still have to use a local admin account to log in and manage everything."
"Improved scale and budget planning with flexibility of the solution for budget needs and efficiency for growth with the great optimization ratio due to the nature of our use."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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