We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"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."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN."
"The solution is really stable."
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any issues at all. There aren't bugs or glitches. There aren't system crashes or anything of that nature."
"The stability is very nice. We haven't had any issues with the cluster. The cluster is very stable. No problems with slowness. Everything has been stable. It was well-architectured."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"The technical support from Dell was very good."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"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."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"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."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"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."
"It would be nice if its installation can be simplified, but it is currently not too bad. They can provide deduplication and compression in hybrid configurations. To the best of my knowledge, these features are not there, and it would be nice if these are added. Some of its competitors already have these features, so it will help VxRail to have a better feature set and compete more effectively."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"We spend around six months waiting for a confirmation and firmware upgrade to confirm this step."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 24th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Scale Computing HC3.
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