We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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.
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"It simplifies storage."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high."
"It is the most stable high-end solution in this area."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"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 biggest benefit of the Hitachi platform is 100 percent storage uptime. It's also highly cost-effective."
"The performance was decent."
"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 benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the performance of the database access."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"We would like to integrate it more with our backup solutions."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"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."
"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."
"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 deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."
"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."
"This product should be easier to install and set up."
"I’d like to see bigger, faster, better hardware, of course. I think that is the way the hardware is trending anyway; bigger, faster CPU, better software, fewer bugs, all that stuff. T"
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"We need a center related to NetApp in Egypt so that we can deal with them directly."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays report.
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