We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any issues at all. There aren't bugs or glitches. There aren't system crashes or anything of that nature."
"For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"We enjoy the ease of management since all of the resources are located on one box — one single point of support."
"VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
"If they can provide deduplication compression through the traditional hard drives, as Cisco does in the HyperFlex system, it will be very cost-effective, especially when it comes to archiving workload. VxRail doesn't allow the mixing of old flash clusters and hyper clusters. When I'm starting with an old flash cluster and it comes to archiving workload, I will also need to attend the new cluster. So, I either manage two different clusters, or I pay and upload my work with the archiving mobile hard drive, which is not cost-effective at all. The main key is to allow mixing between two types of clustering, like Nutanix, or allow deduplication of completion over the period of shared hard drive on SAV. It will be much better."
"The product could support and have more compliance with other vendors."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
"It would be nice if the update process was shortened and that patching would be simpler."
"While VxRail offers compatibility with AMD processors, its capabilities in this area could benefit from further development."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 119 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and FlexPod XCS.
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