We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series 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."Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"Support has been helpful."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The product has great data storage performance with a 100% data security and availability guarantee."
"The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product."
"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."
"The product offers high stability."
"The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements."
"Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us."
"The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability."
"This is one of the most reliable and dependable products on the market."
"Scalable and stable storage array."
"The product’s quality of service guarantees the performance of each workload."
"The price of this solution is good."
"Last year, I did a DM Series installation with my colleague, and this installation was effortless because we had Lenovo support on the phone, so it was easy to get help if we had any problems."
"The FlexClone feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"We are satisfied with the stability."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is its capability to tier to the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Additionally, the integration is good and they are user-friendly."
"The solution offers very good reliable systems and storage for our clients."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The price should be lower."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"We've only faced some minor issues. For example, the documentation of some features isn't as detailed as we would like."
"I would like to see an audit account set up such that the user can log in, see the configuration, and see the logs, but they cannot make any changes."
"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."
"One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage systems. There are four or five such solutions. Maybe these could be combined in the future."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"The pricing is high, but the product is good. Additional features like data duplication might make it even better."
"In the next version I would like to see more intelligence."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"The Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series was very hard to configure. Installation of the product was very hard. These are its areas for improvement."
"It takes a very long time to enter the management console, as well as to restart the system, and these are things that should be improved."
"Many people do not realize that Lenovo has a storage solution, so better marketing from the vendor is needed."
"I would like Lenovo to add a feature like IBM Easy Tier to DM Series. This is a crucial feature for the customers."
"The licensing model needs to be revisited. It needs to be simplified."
"The solution needs a simpler licensing theme around the DM series. The problem is if you only need one of the features, you still have to buy the whole thing. The licensing needs to be more granular or flexible so you have the option to only license FlexCone or Inline Compression features."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series could improve by having a snapshot feature. Additionally, there can be other features added to help restore the data faster."
"The solution should change the licensing model and allow customers to choose features based on their requirements."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is ranked 21st in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is rated 7.4. 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 Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series writes "Simple deployment, stores data well, but missing features". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series is most compared with NetApp AFF, Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series, Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore and NetApp FAS Series. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series report.
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