We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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.
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"The security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"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 technical support is great."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good."
"You can easily scale up, and scale-out."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."
"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best."
"We find the product to be very flexible."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"Over the eight years, we've been using NetApp with ONTAP, we've never lost a bit of data, and we've only experienced a few minutes of downtime in that entire time."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"The storage features are valuable."
"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."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The price should be lower."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"I would like the fan noise to be automatically adjusted based on the drive's current workload."
"In the next version I would like to see additional features like artificial intelligence and an increase in the amount of data it can store."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."
"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."
"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."
"The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product’s UI could be better."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less."
"Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial."
"The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, Dell PowerMax NVMe and NetApp AFF. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 report.
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