We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"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."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"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."
"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."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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