We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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