Dell VMAX All Flash vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform comparison

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell VMAX All Flash and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Report (Updated: June 2024).

Buyer's Guide

Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

June 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 787,061 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Featured Reviews

JamesBrooks

Infrastructure Engineer at ISAM

Jul 12, 2022

Problem free scalability, reliable, with straightforward setup

It has good, reliable, and fast storage. We really like snapshot features and how automatable and programmable it is. It is all managed with ad sport and playbooks We have been using Pure FlashArray X NVMe for about a year now. Scalability has been great. We have run into a couple of instances…

Read full review

reviewer2155368

Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 30, 2024

Provides an ease of data migration and a valuable snapshot feature

Our primary use case for the solution is within our banking operations, where it supports critical IT operations and applications in our data center environment The flexibility and ease of migration offered by the product have significantly improved our organization's operational efficiency,…

Read full review

reviewer1241928

Head of Information Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 2, 2023

A robust platform, with consistent performance, and good support

Hitachi's support helps us to quickly and effectively resolve any issues we may have. Hitachi's roadmap is good. They maintain consistent performance levels with each new version and a robust platform. While we don't anticipate significant innovations in storage, the current storage capabilities are commendable. I am satisfied with the decision to purchase Hitachi products because they provide a storage solution with good performance and quality, which is exactly what we need. The solution's performance, specifically IOPS, is good. Since we have a complex business, knowing that the system's performance is reliable provides us with peace of mind. The flexible media option, which helps consolidate multiple use cases within the same platform, is very important because it provides a significant performance boost.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."

"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."

"It has good, reliable, fast storage."

"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."

"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."

"The most valuable features of Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its superior performance compared to other flash tiers, as well as its ease of use, with an intuitive user interface that is simple to deploy and use."

"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."

More Pure FlashArray X NVMe pros

"The ransomware protection feature is housed in a separate unit, specifically addressing the top twenty most critical threats."

"The snapshot feature has been precious for our testing processes, application development, and managing testing environments due to its efficiency and ease of use."

"The product's initial setup phase was good."

"The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues."

"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."

"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's reliability has been crucial for our company's operations."

"The most valuable feature is that it has 'eight nines' availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point."

"It's best features are its reliability and stability."

"Overall, the solution is strong, easy and fast."

"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."

More Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform pros

Cons

"Many options to check performance, like read, writes, random writes, and random reads, are missing in Pure FlashArray X NVMe."

"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."

"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."

"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."

"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."

"If the customer only needs 500 terabytes and doesn't care how much data they'll put in the server, IBM is cheaper than Pure."

"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."

"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."

More Pure FlashArray X NVMe cons

"We encountered some challenges during large data migrations that could be addressed for smoother transitions."

"Improvements are needed in both partition recovery and scalability."

"The configuration part of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Its usability can be improved. It can have more management features. Its management tools lack features."

"One improvement I am hoping for in the next release is unified storage."

"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."

"The interface should be simplified and made easier to use."

"We moved away from this product because we were looking for an all-flash solution, and with our G1500 at the time, perhaps two years ago, they were just proposing more of the same technology."

"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."

"For the support windows to work, maybe they have to upgrade the firmware of the VSP. They changed the hardware or the disk. I don't know if it was the port blade they changed or a VM for a memory cache. Also, replacing the old target with the processor target would be fine. The old equipment is very easy to manage, and I don't have any bad commentary."

"The distributor needs more knowledgeable resources for technical support. It would be better to connect directly to the vendor in case of queries."

More Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"With Pure Storage, we would like to continue seeing price reductions with flash storage. I don't think we're any different than anybody else when we continue to look to the industry for price reductions of both NVMe and traditional SSD storage. We would like to see these prices continue to decline and erode, even displacing large spinning disks."

"Pure FlashArray X NVMe’s pricing is cheaper than other products."

"As far as the licensing costs, everything is included in the license."

"The tool is an investment that we've budgeted for. While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits. We don't regret purchasing it."

"Pretty much everything that you need is licensed when you buy the product. Licensing to me is different than the maintenance cost, but they can bleed into one another. We buy the product, and we expect three years of support bundled into what we negotiate on our storage arrays. I would start to see maintenance costs going into the fourth year, but we're not there yet."

"Our licensing fees are $500,000+ USD."

"Given its price, Pure is not the first option."

"We pay approximately $50,000 USD per year in licensing fees."

More Pure FlashArray X NVMe pricing and cost advice

"It is not a cheap product."

"The price falls within the mid-range, neither inexpensive nor high-priced."

"The pricing is very competitive compared to other vendors. It really depends on the type of media we're using, like SaaS, SSP, or NVMe."

"The price is good enough considering the performance, and we are satisfied."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. However, I have not done extensive comparative research on the price. If you want to upgrade the size of the disc you will need to purchase a license that accounts for the size."

"We pay for a support contract agreement."

"It is expensive. Everything is included in the license. There is no additional cost."

"The cost price of this product is better than its competitors."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price per gigabyte is good and it is low when it comes to terabytes."

More Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which All-Flash Storage solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

787,061 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

No data available

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The tool is an investment that we've budgeted for. While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The tool's pricing is higher than competitors.

See all answers

What do you like most about Dell EMC VMax?

The product's initial setup phase was good.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC VMax?

It is not a cheap product. As the tool is expensive, I am looking at the market for some products with better prices ...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Dell EMC VMax?

The configuration part of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required. If the pr...

See all answers

What do you like most about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?

The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication me...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?

One problem is that there are too many management tools for the F Series and for all the other Hitachi storage system...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?

We're only using the F Series in our lab for hosting lab infrastructure for all our colleagues. We needed fast storage.

See all answers

Comparisons

Dell PowerStore vs Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Compared 20% of the time

Dell Unity XT vs Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Compared 17% of the time

Pure Storage FlashArray vs Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Compared 11% of the time

Pure Storage FlashBlade vs Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Compared 9% of the time

Dell PowerMax NVMe vs Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Compared 8% of the time

More Pure FlashArray X NVMe Competitors

Dell PowerMax NVMe vs Dell VMAX All Flash

Compared 52% of the time

Dell PowerStore vs Dell VMAX All Flash

Compared 31% of the time

More Dell VMAX All Flash Competitors

IBM FlashSystem vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Compared 13% of the time

Dell PowerStore vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Compared 11% of the time

NetApp AFF vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Compared 10% of the time

Dell Unity XT vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Compared 9% of the time

Huawei OceanStor Dorado vs Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Compared 6% of the time

More Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

May 2024

Download Pure FlashArray X NVMe product report

Buyer's Guide

All-Flash Storage

May 2024

Download Dell VMAX All Flash product report

Buyer's Guide

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

June 2024

Download Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform product report

Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

No data available

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform N Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series

Learn More

Pure Storage

Dell Technologies

Hitachi Vantara

Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Meet the demands of today’s mission-critical workloads with the high performance and massive capacity of VMAX All Flash. With rich data services, incredible reliability, and universal support, VMAX All Flash defines the modern data center.

RETHINK YOUR DEFINITION OF SPEED AND PERFORMANCE

With adaptive, guaranteed data reduction and a 100% data-availability guarantee, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F series helps you tackle complicated business challenges. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) VSP F series delivers up to 4.8M IOPS with sub-millisecond response times.
Featuring legendary Hitachi reliability, VSP F series arrays are backed by the industries only 100% availability guarantee. For these reasons, 80% of the Fortune 500 choose Hitachi all-flash arrays to accelerate the performance of mission-critical applications like Oracle, SAP, Virtualization, Microsoft apps etc. With over 350 patents in flash technology, Hitachi’s innovative mix of flash hardware and software accelerates ROI with enterprise-class reliability and performance.

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company

Information Not Available

Turkcell, Owens Corning, Region Nord, Net Credit Financial Group (NFC Group), Russian Railways

Buyer's Guide

Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

June 2024

Free Report: Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Find out what your peers are saying about Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and other solutions. Updated: June 2024.

DOWNLOAD NOW

787,061 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Dell VMAX All Flash vs. Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform report.

See our list of best All-Flash Storage vendors.

We monitor all All-Flash Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.