We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"They could improve the packaging."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE Alletra dHCI and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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