We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"Technical support is good."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"It has its own file formatting protocol, which saves a lot of space."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"The support is very good."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"The product offers high stability."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"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."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"The price should be lower."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"The price is on the higher side."
"Horizontal scaling has room for improvement."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"While using Dell PowerStore's interface in our organization, we sometimes miss out on some information."
"The support is not very good."
"We would consider this solution if the pricing is competitive with other options, as it offers a very good solution. However, the current price is slightly higher than the competition."
"When you create a case on Dell's support website, you don't always get someone who is experienced in the kind of systems you need help with...making it an area where Dell's support team needs to make improvements."
"The initial setup was difficult, as we don't have access to assistance. We had some issues around configuration. We needed to know things like what kind of rate is the best, or what kind of replication is ideal. We had to seek out answers online to get the information we needed."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"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."
"In terms of what could be improved, it could use a better, faster web console and other consoles. It is so boring waiting, waiting and waiting for it to refresh."
"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."
"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."
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Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and Dell XtremIO, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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