We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"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."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Vblock [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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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