We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"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."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"The product offers high stability."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"The high throughput feature is the most powerful thing in this product."
"The Global Copy and Global Mirror features are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"Deploying, Expanding, and Modifying systems are easier than ever."
"I like the many new features, especially the all-flash solution."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"This solution is resilient."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform faces challenges when it comes to features like deduplication and compression. Enabling these features can lead to processor overload, resulting in performance degradation, especially under high loads."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"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."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"The solution should embedded replication switches into the hardware instead of using them externally."
"The GUI isn't as user-friendly as other options."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
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