We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Frame-Based Disk Arrays solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"It simplifies the overall management. We don't have to worry about storage anymore."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"With federation, you can have multiple systems across sites. You can treat them as one, and with a live migration, volumes don't go down. You can move them from site to site, doing maintenance, and keep your environment up."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"A valuable feature is the performance of the auto-tiering. It will move hot data up to your fastest Tier 1 or move your slow data down. Data progression is what it's called. With the auto-tiering you can have multiple tiers, you can have your Tier 1 be either spinning or flash, all the way down to 7.2K. It will change the RAID on the fly so your writes come in at RAID 10. After they sit for a while, they get converted to RAID 5, then they'll cool off and move down the tiers. Your performance is kept going, while the cold data is moved to your slow, non-performance tiers."
"It had many features, like a snapshot, replication, on-the-file RAID levels, mix-and-match files, those kinds of things."
"The process of reallocating data from fast disks (SSD or SAS) to slow disks (SATA) gives you better performance and better use of resources."
"Technical support is very good. I do use it from time to time and it's always excellent."
"Its leading feature is the price-performance ratio, which is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The technical support is great."
"The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The performance was decent."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"It is a bit expensive."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"It's not very efficient anymore. There are better products out there."
"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"What I understand is that this is a 13 year old architecture, so it has lived its life and they're phasing it out. Honestly, we were initially struggling with the integration with VMware (but it was fixed with the VMware 6.5) and, then, it was around a 10GB network. At that time, it had the longevity to go to 100GB as well. It got us thinking about, when we go into the containerized architecture, what do we need to do to fix the infrastructure?"
"Dell could improve the upgrading process."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"We had times that we needed a file service solution. We've used FluidFS, but it's a solution that is being transitioned out."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"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."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"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 snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 3rd in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 49 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 1st in Frame-Based Disk Arrays with 48 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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