We performed a comparison between Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For maximizing storage utilization, PowerScale is great. When you write the data to it, it spreads it out to all the nodes, so you get all the performance from the entire pool."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The tool comes with cheap disks and works fast for video content."
"This has been a valuable solution for our business overall. It offers business continuity and replication features."
"Dell PowerScale is a scalable solution. It allows non-disruptive upgrades and maintenance of the system."
"The fact that we were able to set it up, use it, and, for the most part, didn't have to worry about it after we had it set up has been valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"Its scalability has been huge for us."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The product offers high stability."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"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."
"We used to have a chat feature available on the support site. It's not available to us anymore."
"The thing that they are working on now, and we are following closely is more native cloud integrations. The way that we envision workloads in the future is around moving compute to data instead of the other way around. So, we would like to have a single pane glass to manage storage across a variety of different platforms, including native cloud. That would be awesome."
"Isilon has limitations on the number of files that can be generated."
"It would be nice to see tools like Superna Eyeglass built into PowerScale."
"Dell PowerScale (Isilon) could improve the load distribution capability. For example, in some cases, the system load is not distributed automatically on all the nodes but is concentrated only on one. You have a peak request on only one node and the others don't do anything."
"Its configuration needs to be more straightforward."
"There is room for improvement in its handling of object storage."
"The product’s expansion capacity, pricing clarity, and ease of use need improvement."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"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."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"We have not been able to procure more discs for upcoming projects and this has been a problem for us. Not having additional storage is going to be an issue. The solution is at its end of life and will be replaced soon."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
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Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is ranked 1st in NAS with 37 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews. Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is rated 9.0, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerScale (Isilon) writes "We can easily deploy, manage, and maintain systems without needing a huge amount of expertise to facilitate them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerScale (Isilon) is most compared with Dell ECS, NetApp FAS Series, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qumulo and HPE StoreEasy, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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