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."It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The product offers high stability."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"The support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"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."
"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."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack 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."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"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."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
"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."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 47 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, Tintri VMstore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, 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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