We performed a comparison between Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is its ability to handle a high number of users while maintaining both stability and performance."
"The pricing of this solution is good, which is an advantage that positions this product well."
"The product’s technical support services are good."
"The product has valuable features for data migration."
"Simple and extremely reliable."
"Hitachi is reliable with high availability and solid performance. It performs well regardless of the workload."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is very stable."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"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."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"Hitachi NAS Platform is expensive."
"I do not like Hitachi NAS because it's an old-school NAS solution, compared to the other, newer-type solutions such as Isilon from Dell or Qumulo."
"I would like to see the inclusion of support for cloud-connectivity to providers like AWS."
"Hitachi NAS Platform's pricing could be reduced. It is high compared to other competitors."
"Hitachi could be more flexible and have a simpler management interface."
"The monitoring tool is not well developed."
"I encounter challenges while installing the upgrades for the product."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"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."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"We have not been able to procure more discs for upcoming projects and this has been a problem for us. Not having additional storage is going to be an issue. The solution is at its end of life and will be replaced soon."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"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."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
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Hitachi NAS Platform is ranked 15th in NAS with 8 reviews while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews. Hitachi NAS Platform is rated 6.8, while Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi NAS Platform writes "Easy-to-manage product with efficient backup features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". Hitachi NAS Platform is most compared with NetApp FAS Series, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), IBM FlashSystem and Qumulo, whereas Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and HPE Nimble Storage. See our Hitachi NAS Platform vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.
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