We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi VSP E Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its array houses our entire production environment."
"We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Support has been helpful."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The performance was decent."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high."
"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 offers good file sharing."
"Its user-friendly configuration and maintenance processes contribute to its reputation for being straightforward and easily manageable."
"We are using the Hitachi VSP E Series for high IOPS."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The price could be better."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"At the moment, I don't see any room for improvement in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series because my experience with the product is very good. The software is okay and you can manage the storage well. What I'd like to see in the next release of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is for it to be a real NAS solution because right now, you need to use a Hitachi converter called HNAS which makes the process a little bit more expensive. In my opinion, Hitachi should look into the possibility of unifying the HNAS into full storage, meaning that the HNAS should be integrated into the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"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."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"There is room for improvement in simplifying the overall complexity of the environment."
"The solution's support duration or end-of-support life is very short."
"The graphical user interface is somewhat outdated, lacking some of the modern features found in other solutions."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 4th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 48 reviews while Hitachi VSP E Series is ranked 13th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 3 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Hitachi VSP E Series is rated 6.4. 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 Hitachi VSP E Series writes "A stable NVMe storage solution that can be used for high IOPS". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Hitachi VSP E Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore and NetApp AFF. See our Hitachi VSP E Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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