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."The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"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 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."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good."
"It's a state of the art solution in storage systems. High-availability and performance are the strongest aspects of these machines."
"I am happy about the storage system and availability."
"The solution is scalable."
"Huawei OceanStor provides numerous features that are tailored to cater to the requirements of all types of companies."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"Huawei OceanStor is stable."
"Huawei OceanStor is easy to manage."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"If your virtual machine that resides on it completely fills the storage space, thanks to it's built-in function of all-zero data space reclamation, you just have to ask to System Engineer to run a zero-free on hosts (thin provisioned) and you will get more space instantaneously."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"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."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"The initial setup was difficult, as we don't have access to assistance. We had some issues around configuration. We needed to know things like what kind of rate is the best, or what kind of replication is ideal. We had to seek out answers online to get the information we needed."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"The complex setup phase is an area where improvements are needed."
"The deployment took a little longer."
"In the future release, Huawei OceanStor should improve on what they already have. It is a good solution."
"The speed has room for improvement."
"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."
"The overall price of the solution should be reduced."
"Technical support could be more helpful."
"The management is not a good feature in all of Huawei products. It's not easy or simple. Huawei has some problems with management and handling storage information from one interface."
"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."
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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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