We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"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."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The ease of use is great."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"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."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of 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 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."
"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."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"It needs to be vanilla. There shouldn't be any custom drivers, any custom anything. It should just be, "Hey, you know what? These drivers are going to work for this version, the next version, and the following version after that." That's the difficulty in this. It takes too much upkeep... The main issue is drivers. Every time we move to a new vSAN version, we're having problems finding the correct drivers for the vendor."
"It can be very expensive."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"The updating process could be easier."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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