We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"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."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"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."
"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 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."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". 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 SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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