We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and SolidFire 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."We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"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."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience."
"In terms of performance and ability, the product can stand up against its competitors since the solution offers two controller systems to users."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"The file functionality could be better."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"It seemed like every time we turned around it was a statement of work and we'd have to pay for something that our previous vendors would not have billed us for."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"For the support windows to work, maybe they have to upgrade the firmware of the VSP. They changed the hardware or the disk. I don't know if it was the port blade they changed or a VM for a memory cache. Also, replacing the old target with the processor target would be fine. The old equipment is very easy to manage, and I don't have any bad commentary."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"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 inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. SolidFire report.
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