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."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The scalability is good."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for me is the deduplication part, especially since most of the servers in our organization are Windows-based servers."
"The compression is excellent."
"This solution is very useful to us as we use it internally for all of the services that we need. We use it as a lab and we showcase new technology to the customers and how it can help them going forward."
"This solution is highly flexible and offers efficient online compression capabilities."
"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."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"The support is very good."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"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."
"I would like to see a Snapshot feature. Currently, it is unable to occupy the capacity."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"Could use some additional automation."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"More demonstration and training options are needed."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"The life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
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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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