We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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 feature is its speed."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"This solution is very scalable."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"I like that the solution is scalable. The initial setup is not complex. The basic licenses and software are included in the package. he primary advantage is that this product has been thoroughly tested and proven over time. I recommend this product."
"The flash aspects of the Unity make it incredibly fast. The fact that you get that much storage directly on what is basically a 3U box to us, that density has been really useful."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is data duplication. Additionally, the management interface is simple, and is not a hassle using it. You don't need too much to learn or to be familiarized with it."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the unified storage. Also, its capabilities for block-access, file access, and the center box."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is the GUI, it is very good. End users can manage using it. Additionally, the documentation is of high quality and it integrates well."
"All-flash performance, Snapshotting capabilities and replication are all valuable features."
"The ease of management and “user-friendly” management environment (GUI)."
"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."
"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The performance was decent."
"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 technical support is great."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"Software updates have to be downloaded to the root of the device. This pushes the available space to 95% utilization."
"Inline dedup compression security is coming up as an issue, encryption, etc. is key for our customers. If we could have more ways to do software-based encryption, those are the features customers are asking us for, as well as replication."
"VNX used to have some features that Unity still doesn't have. From that perspective, the progress is not that advanced."
"Ordering is easy, but the processing site and working with those companies was difficult."
"The Host LUN ID is sequential by access in the hosts. When one LUN needs access by many hosts (for cluster purposes), in some cases the Host LUN ID remains different on each host."
"In future releases, I would like to see automatic upgrades from one to the next, when this system is coming out and the next one is coming in; more akin to what Pure Storage is doing. That would be really helpful."
"The initial setup is not so straightforward if you don't have experience with storage arrays."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."
"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."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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