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."Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"All-flash array eliminates all the overhead of tiering and a lot of the data structuring overhead involved."
"Because I always need to trouble shooting for IOPS & database (DB) performance issues. I can quickly focus on what is part of the issue. I can decrease downtime and can plan next year's extended capacity budget."
"Veeam Backup integration: Veeam is the defacto standard for backing up of virtual environments."
"For sites that we use it on, it gives us more flexibility and high availability solutions. It is easier to expand the site, if needed."
"The high availability of Dell EMC Unity XT has been the most important feature."
"The All-Flash models are pretty fast for the vast majority of our remote workloads."
"Its most valuable feature is the storage alarm."
"This solution is easy to work with and easy to maintain."
"The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"The technical support is great."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"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."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"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 user interface could use improvement."
"The one thing that we would look at would be if they were to expand the file level features, just to give us a balance or a tier between it and Isilon options out there, for unstructured data."
"Since Dell took over EMC, the support has been very bad. Before, the support was fine. Now, the support is slow or they don't react."
"There are some features in VNX that I wish were in the Unity. For example, Storage Groups for isolating LANs and hosts. That is a big issue."
"The EMC VNX Virtual Data Mover (VDM) software needs more improvement."
"The iSCSI and the VMware integation using vSphere could be less confusing."
"The initial installation is straightforward and took approximately one hour. However, the full process was not as simple as IBM."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors."
"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."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"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."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"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."
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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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