We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Panasas ActiveStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product provides a good storage space."
"Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity."
"The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints."
"The setup is very easy to manage and configure. The initial setup and takes one hour more or less."
"The performance is very good."
"One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right."
"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"We've found the product to be quite flexible."
"I am impressed with the tool's performance and bandwidth."
"In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release."
"The embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"The deployment could be a bit easier, because it's a bit tricky"
"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."
"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."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"I would like to see Hitachi improve their management software. It's been three years since they introduced Ops Center, their management product, and it still hasn't reached at least 50 percent of the capability we require. We are using legacy software because the product Hitachi offers does not stack up in functionality."
"The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier."
"We have received complaints from customers that the tool is not easy to use. The tool's local technical service is slow. The solution is good for Linux customers and not for customers with other operating systems like Windows. The solution should provide storage without client software integration."
"The solution is quite expensive."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 5th in NAS with 48 reviews while Panasas ActiveStor is ranked 14th in NAS with 2 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Panasas ActiveStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform writes "Leverages a 3DC architecture with VSP for disaster recovery, offering a 100% data availability guarantee". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Panasas ActiveStor writes "A stable solution with good performance and bandwidth". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Panasas ActiveStor is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and NetApp FAS Series. See our Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform vs. Panasas ActiveStor report.
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