We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It is noticeably easier to manage than other appliances that we have."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"The solution is very user-friendly in terms of maintenance and configuration. It's also possible to connect the solution to other storage management solutions."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The performance and ease of management are the most valuable features."
"Generally stable with good technical support."
"Huawei OceanStor is designed with built-in high availability features, such as fault tolerance, ensuring consistent data access and minimizing downtime."
"Great value for money."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"The solution has improved our organization by speeding up our operations."
"It is a highly available product."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."
"The software has always been lagging a bit compared to the newer features. It usually takes a cycle for it to catch up."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"The main concern is regarding the usability of the data storage."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
"The user interface is not so user friendly."
"The technical support has been a let down for us. It's something the company has to work on. We haven't been satisfied with their level of service."
"CFS integration is one area where OceanStor has some room for improvement. The CFS on OceanStor is dedicated, so it's not integrated with the existing active directory domain."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Huawei OceanStor is ranked 12th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "It's a high-performing solution with strong architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei OceanStor writes "User-friendly and robust storage solution with good performance and easy setup". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor is most compared with Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Huawei OceanStor report.
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