We performed a comparison between Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Reduxio [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."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."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"Hitachi's technical support is perfect."
"Storage is the most valuable feature."
"It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device."
"The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models."
"The customer service and support are reasonably good. The environment I work in, there always remains an element of surprise, and there are restrictions. But Hitachi has good technical people."
"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."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance and has good IOPS: 300 IOPS. The technical support for this product is also good."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"In terms of ease of use, the GUI is quite amazing and seems to be taken from a computer game. Literally within 30 minutes, we had learned almost everything there is on the management UI and started managing the device."
"In terms of deployment and also data storage, the deduplication ability of it has reduced that footprint."
"Improves the response of the VMs by having the most used portions on the flashcache."
"Reduxio delivers a self-contained system with all of the features rolled in and functional."
"The HTML5 UI is clean, easy to navigate, and very intuitive."
"The unit has been running at 100% without an issue."
"Ease of user interface: prevents distractions and confusion when dealing with real-time catastrophes and high-pressure situations. Overall, it extremely easy to use. My team was trained within less than two hours."
"It has a very intuitive interface, it integrates more smoothly with our steps. With a different product from a different manufacturer, there are a lot more steps required to set up a volume, to make it available in VMware and to utilize it there."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It is a bit expensive."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"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 data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"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."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform needs to improve its scalability options where there are a few shortcomings."
"At the moment, I don't see any room for improvement in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series because my experience with the product is very good. The software is okay and you can manage the storage well. What I'd like to see in the next release of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is for it to be a real NAS solution because right now, you need to use a Hitachi converter called HNAS which makes the process a little bit more expensive. In my opinion, Hitachi should look into the possibility of unifying the HNAS into full storage, meaning that the HNAS should be integrated into the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series."
"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."
"If they had a certain approach to layered storage, it would be better. For example, adaption to the browser, or having a centralized console."
"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 embedded management for installation feature has neither simplified nor complicated the management process, therefore, there is room for improvement."
"the only thing I would say negative about Reduxio is the cabling was a little bit confusing at first, but now that we understand it, it's easy. It was just so different from what we've seen before. That was the only hard part to get used to. The storage array is fully redundant, so there are some cross-connect cables that you have to run, from the A side to the B side, and the B side back to the A side, and we've just never seen anything like that before. But now that I understand the design, it makes complete sense. But initially it was confusing."
"I am waiting for the vSphere Plug-In with individual VM level control."
"t would be helpful to have a mobile app to monitor the storage array remotely."
"The only thing that I'd like to see, at some point in time, is having the storage array being able to detect a ransomware attack. When you get hit by a ransomware it rewrites every block in your guest's virtual machine. So there should be a way for them to be able to detect that: "Hey, this is unusual, to see every block of this guest being rewritten all at one time," and then flag that as potential malware or ransomware."
"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."
"The user interface for the web console could be more user-friendly, while it is flashy, how to find functions is not necessarily obvious."
"We had a single failure of the device but believe that it was tied to the server losing contact with our NTP server due to DNS issues. As Reduxio is very time-dependent, losing sync made the entire array unstable."
"Needs to be made easier to use with slightly older versions of VMware."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Reduxio [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while Reduxio [EOL] is rated 9.8. 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 Reduxio [EOL] writes "Its access speed and now its recently released features makes Reduxio not only an equal, but also better than your older version SANs". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Reduxio [EOL] is most compared with .
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