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 stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"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."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"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."
"This is one of the most stable, high-end solutions in this area."
"The product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"The biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The product provides a good storage space."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."
"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 active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"The most valuable feature is the availability."
"It is a highly available product."
"It is easy to use, deploy, communicate and manage this solution."
"Huawei OceanStor has the capability of SSDs, high-performance disks, and higher disk support."
"We get a quick response in case any component defaults. We have seen the benefits mostly."
"This is a stable storage system."
"Great value for money."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"It needs to improve its price."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
"The installation procedure it a bit difficult, because it is a high-end solution. With this type of product, the original company is interested in doing the setup for customers in the area, but because of sanctions we were not able to get support in our area. We faced many issued trying to learn to run this product."
"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."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"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."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"Could have a more stable, lighter Metro and better logging system."
"The administration should be simplified because there are a large number of options that make it too complicated, and the customers can get confused."
"The duration of the built-in snapshot technology must be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see the next generation all-flash, which could be combined."
"The upgrading process needs improvement. Deploy it and notify the customers when new versions and stuff comes out. I don't think they're doing that well."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"Its data replication features work slowly for nodes."
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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 31 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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