Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] vs VMAX [EOL] comparison

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100% willing to recommend

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84% willing to recommend

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Hitachi Universal Storage V...

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

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VMAX [EOL]

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

it_user1205586

Chief Solutions Architect at Science Applications International Corporation

Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management

We use this solution for provisioning and management The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption. The exterior display needs to be improved. Sorry, I like the blue lights the competition has, but maybe we can see green led lights…

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Ali Yazıcı

IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

Good interface that is customizable, and the technical support is good

Our primary use of this product is for our core banking servers over FC It is a high end storage, minimal downtime, reliable, good performance, get speedy support when we need. The user interface is good, and it is also customizable. snap and clone operations easy. Stability and availability…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."

"This solution had the best cost and it was easy to work with the Vendor."

"Resilience, speed, flexibility, system reliability, and a strong refresh strategy are the most valuable features."

"EMC has made remarkable improvements in the overall management simplicity."

"This product has enabled dynamic allocation of disk resources, and at the same time, improved the data access speed and application performance by a large extent."

"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."

"Furthermore, EMC support is second to none, EMC engineers will visit your site to replace a disk or component before you are even aware that there is a problem (via ESRS – see below)."

"VMAX is a rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."

"Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Excellent."

"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."

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Cons

"The exterior display needs to be improved."

"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."

"We are trying to scale a vintage VMAX. As far as increasing capacity, it is a real nightmare."

"Be aware that buying a Symmetrix VMAX is like owning a McLaren F1 race car; consider yourself lucky to drive it at the track since everything else must be performed by McLaren."

"I would like to see support for high-availability."

"The only draw back is you don’t get multiple point in time copies."

"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."

"Manageability is a bit of a challenge, as the user interface to access the array is not very user-friendly."

"I'm always interested in ways we can scale out and avoid monolithic migrations from one array to another every four to five years."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution has a good price-performance ratio."

"There are additional costs to the standard licensing fee, and it just depends on the package."

"Our licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis."

"Our licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Performing Arts

13%

Construction Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	17

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Also Known As

HUS VM

Symmetrix VMAX

Overview

The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM delivers proven enterprise-class functionality — advanced virtualization of externally attached storage, logical partitioning, thin provisioning and universal replication — in flexible, cost effective service oriented configurations.

Hitachi Vantara

Symmetrix VMAX accelerate your transformation to the software-defined data center with the world's most powerful, trusted, and smart family of storage products.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

Hanergy Global Solar PV Application Pte Ltd

Wentworth-Douglas Hospital, Kindred Healthcare, Cosentry, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, Shriners, BZWBK

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