"We are happy with the way we have Dell EMC Unity XT configured."
"Stable data storage platform which promotes ease of management through its multi-cloud support. Remote support provided to users to address issues is very good."
"We're able to access it from just about anywhere, as long as we have access to a browser. That feature is really neat because sometimes we will go to a different data center or a different site, and if we need to access it to see a LUN or to see any type of storage, we can do that. That's one of the big takeaways with Unity."
"The most valuable features include snapshots, Thin Clones, and deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic cache of this product. It is very important. We have the physical cache and we can boost this cache using disks. All the products are mainly flash now and this is one of the main characteristics which our customers like."
"On the Data Domain side, the most attractive feature is the compression ratio, which none of the other products in the market are currently able to provide. On the Unity side, what customers mostly like is the availability guarantee."
"The most valuable features are its performance and simplicity."
"Stable flash storage platform with good scalability, efficiency, and speed."
"The performance is very good."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the deduplication part, because for large deduplications, you need an extra appliance to do it in order to avoid having problems in performance. I think that could be improved, because everything should be included in the product, not with an appliance from the outside."
"Support Responsiveness & time to fix bugs should be improved."
"I have a problem because between the Unity XT and the PowerMax, sometimes we need another product between these two products. There could be better integrated and the capacity of the size could be larger."
"Issues with slow responses from the support team."
"We have only used this solution for less than one year so I don't have any improvements suggestions yet."
"The reporting should be better. In other systems, you can create many different kinds of reports but this is not the case with Dell."
"I would like it to be a little bit easier to contact support. We can contact support, but we have to go through a phone tree. We get routed to different places. I might call support to say that I need a drive replaced and get transferred to three different groups before I get to the group I actually need."
"Dell could improve Unity XT by adding support for NVMe."
"Hitachi should launch some small machines in Brazil. The smallest machine here in Brazil is VSP 350, which can be quite big for some of the customers. In China, Hitachi has small models of this equipment, but those models are not available in our region. Its pricing is a big issue for us. We are resellers, and we face some competition from other vendors. Hitachi doesn't always have a good position in terms of the price. Its user interface is also not as good as some of the other competitors, and it can be improved."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"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."
"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."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"In terms of ransomware, Pure Storage is probably a couple of steps ahead of Hitachi, but Hitachi does not rush in terms of features. They want to be really sure that the hardware works properly without any kind of problem in new environments, and the implementation or improvement does not affect the customer installation. They really want to make sure that customers are not affected in any way."
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Dell Unity XT is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 29 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 6 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "We can do both block and file storage on one unit without purchasing a separate device". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series writes "The setup is very easy to manage and configure". Dell Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and VMware vSAN, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe, HPE Primera, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series report.
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