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.
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"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."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"It's best features are its reliability and stability."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast."
"The storage features are valuable."
"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."
"NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is easier to use than some other solutions and the UI is very good to use for day-to-day activities. Overall, the solution has good technology."
"The most valuable features are stability and performance."
"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."
"Low latency is the most valuable feature."
"The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"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."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The integration capabilities could be improved."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"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."
"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."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"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 embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"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 initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."
"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."
"Stability is an area with a certain shortcoming where the solution needs to improve"
"The product’s UI could be better."
"The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better."
"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."
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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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