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"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"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 product's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"In terms of performance and ability, the product can stand up against its competitors since the solution offers two controller systems to users."
"The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless."
"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."
"This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"The technical support is okay, but could be improved."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"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 life-cycle of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is too short. We only had approximately four or five years out of the solution before it was rendered its end of life."
"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."
"Hitachi should launch some small machines in Brazil. The smallest machine here in Brazil is VSP 350, which can be quite big for some of the customers. In China, Hitachi has small models of this equipment, but those models are not available in our region. Its pricing is a big issue for us. We are resellers, and we face some competition from other vendors. Hitachi doesn't always have a good position in terms of the price. Its user interface is also not as good as some of the other competitors, and it can be improved."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"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."
"n future releases, I would like to see enhancements in the web GUI capabilities for direct management without additional PCM."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is ranked 10th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is rated 8.4, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is most compared with IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and NetApp FAS Series, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and DDN SFA7990X.
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