We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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."The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The high availability that other systems don't have. In other systems, there is an owner in the storage processes. But for PowerMAX, there is no owner. All the process storage is passed to all nodes without ownership. So, there is no response feature in the storage in PowerMax. In the other systems, there is a response, which is a very nice feature. No systems have such a feature."
"It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"The performance is very good on our servers. It's superior. And the QoS capabilities for providing work congestion protection are also important because about 99 percent of our servers are production servers."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"I have been highly satisfied with the resiliency and scalability of the solution."
"We were able to move away from a middleware solution for high availability, going right to snapshots and data replication on arrays."
"It's faster and more resilient."
"The UI is very easy to use. We can add volumes and manage them easily."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"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 performance was decent."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"It needs to improve its price."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"Automation could be simplified."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe needs to increase storage and improve scalability."
"I believe it would be of great benefit to work on the customization of the pricing structure for different enterprises and their specific needs."
"There is also room for improvement in the PowerMax architecture and hardware itself. They should design the PowerMax on the basis of PCIe 4.0. I would like to see the possibility of an NVMe drive that operates on PCIe 4.0 and not PCIe 3.0."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"We have had some trouble with the VMAX-to-PowerMax migration, but the VMAX box will be powered down after the migration. The PowerMax boxes are working fine and we don't have any issues with them."
"The initial setup was complex. ESRS is a very complex solution to put into our environment, because it requires external access to the Internet. That's a very tough thing for us to do, because we are a PCI and PII company. We store a lot of data for people which is personal. Therefore, going out to the Internet is not our preferred path."
"The REST API needs improvement. We are a very big automation company, and this would be big for us."
"The GUI interface is very complicated and could be improved by streamlining the number of steps in the process."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"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."
"Hitachi should launch some small machines in Brazil. The smallest machine here in Brazil is VSP 350, which can be quite big for some of the customers. In China, Hitachi has small models of this equipment, but those models are not available in our region. Its pricing is a big issue for us. We are resellers, and we face some competition from other vendors. Hitachi doesn't always have a good position in terms of the price. Its user interface is also not as good as some of the other competitors, and it can be improved."
"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."
"The solution is priced higher than its competitors."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp AFF, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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