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.
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"The technical support is very good."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"It is easy to use, expand the hard drives, add storage, and set up replication."
"This solution is easy to use."
"Easy management of volumes: You can create volumes and easily assign them to VMware clusters, increasing their size."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"There's some new stuff coming with 7.3, which just got released, where they're spreading the sparing across the whole array, rather than having a dedicated spare disk, and have it sit there and do nothing until one of them dies, and then it kicks in - and having to rebuild all of that. Now, they'll do the sparing across all the disks and they say that is going to add not only space but performance to the array, with 7.3."
"The most valuable features are the with back-end dedupe, and the thin nodes. For a 20TB or 60TB, we're using almost a one-to-two ratio."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right."
"The technical support is great."
"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."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered higher performance, at least on the back end."
"Technical support should respond more quickly because the turnaround time is very high."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"Compellent comes in the form of a component that's not true of a unified storage platform."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"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?"
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"For the support windows to work, maybe they have to upgrade the firmware of the VSP. They changed the hardware or the disk. I don't know if it was the port blade they changed or a VM for a memory cache. Also, replacing the old target with the processor target would be fine. The old equipment is very easy to manage, and I don't have any bad commentary."
"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."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."
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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 Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our Dell SC Series vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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