We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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."The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The technical support is great."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"I've been satisfied with the level of attention I'm given when I reach out to technical support."
"The most valuable feature for me is that it deduces better, whereby it can be assigned six times the usable capacity, depending on the nature of the data."
"The most valuable aspects encompass a comprehensive set of common features, such as NetFlow technology, hyper-micro, and hyper-application functionalities."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the overall simplicity."
"Has good capacity, is effective and easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SmartMigration, HyperReplication, HyperSnap, HyperCopy, HyperClone, SmartPartition, and SmartCache."
"The majority of our customers find this solution simple to use."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"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."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"The solution is stable. However, there have been some software crashes where we had to restart the system. They could improve the hardware to prevent this type of issue."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"The life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
"They should look at the cost because there are other vendors who offer the same cost with more features."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"This solution can improve by providing easier migrations and better Metro features."
"The product could always be faster."
"Difficult integration with third parties."
"It should have easy connectivity with the AIX, however, I've found that with AIX, it has some issues and due to this, we need to remove the exact fiber card sometimes and then plug it in again so that it can connect with the AIX systems."
"The speeds of the disks themselves need to be faster. The disks are not flash. When we opened our hard drive from the inclusion, I saw a converter, and it's not entirely flash."
"I would like to see them improve their IOPS per second to match their contemporaries in the industry."
"The data compression and deduplication ratio of Huawei OceanStor Dorado is not as good as other solutions, such as EMC and Pure Storage. It is important when looking at capacity effectiveness."
"In additional features, it would be easier to do snapshots on a regular basis. So, like, a new feature that would allow you to take snapshots every hour."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Huawei OceanStor Dorado is ranked 11th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Huawei OceanStor Dorado 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 Dorado writes "Good performance and simple to deploy and manage". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Huawei OceanStor Dorado is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Huawei OceanStor, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF and Dell Unity XT. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado report.
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