We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and SolidFire 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."NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"SolidFire has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions. I also like the tool’s scalability. The product’s performance does not get affected when we scale either up or down. This is not the case with other products."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"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 software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"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."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 47 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while SolidFire is rated 8.4. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. SolidFire report.
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