Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Reviews

We use Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for core products. We get new machines and move the data to new machines. In our organization, we have over 5,000 users.

it is help us to increase performance and ensure business continuity.

It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device.

The snapshot and clone operation functions can be made easier.

I have been using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for about six years.

It is highly stable. 

It has good scalability.

We have contacted them for a technical issue. Their technical support is good.

Positive

We have an older version of Hitachi, which is also a virtual storage platform but not the G Series. Also EMC VMAX 

The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment took about a week.

Our vendor deployed it.

Dell EMC VMAX

I would recommend this solution. 

I would rate Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series a ten out of ten. It is a good product.

We use the private cloud version.

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

Pricing could be better because the cost is very high.

In terms of new features, I would be interested to see deduplication added in their next release.

It's very stable. As of now, we haven't had any events with the loss of storage. It is very stable.

We have one storage device for all of the patients, so it's very critical. There are more than a thousand users.

I recommend this product and I would rate it as nine out of ten.

We use this solution primarily within our large IaaS platform for All-Purpose Storage, Tiered Storage, Storage Replication, and non-disruptive Data Mobility between storage tiers. It is an ideal device for secure multi-tenanting and those hosting many clients.  

This solution has given us a huge improvement to DR, resiliency, and business continuity.

The hybrid array provides scaleable, predictable, high performance with no capacity constraints.

The G-Series platform has proven to be our platform of choice for providing our clients with reliable IaaS and cloud services.   

The most valuable features of this solution are its Data Mobility and High-performance flash capabilities.

The Management Interface needs to be improved. Hitachi Vantara has invested heavily in improving their management interface, however, they still have a way to go to catch up with many of their competitors.

The G-Series is an extremely stable platform, a chief criterion for deploying it in our IaaS and cloud services platforms. 

Scalability is one of the best in the industry. The G-Series is soon to be superseded by Hitachi's next generation of enterprise storage, which I'm confident will continue the Hitachi tradition of extreme scalability with virtually unbreakable reliability.

Because our own engineers have a high skill base and accreditation on the G-Series, it is seldom that we have to seek vendor support or request a call out. Whenever we do, we experience professional and skilled levels of support. 

We have used Hitachi high-end storage products for many of the past fifteen years as the primary storage resource for our enterprise clients. About ten years ago, we were struggling with Hitachi's local sales force not being proactive/value-added enough, so we made the decision to introduce another storage vendor (NetApp) into our infrastructure. The two vendors continue to coexist and compete today in a positive way.  

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. The G-Series was an evolution of our previous enterprise storage platform, and its deployment was largely problem-free, non-disruptive, and transparent to our clients.  

The vendor team assisted our in-house team with the deployment. They were highly experienced and skilled personnel. 

Our main issue with the Hitachi G-Series is what we consider to be an archaic software licensing scheme and high maintenance costs. It makes little sense in this era to continue to use capacity-sensitive licensing and costs that might have been acceptable in the 1990s but not now.

Ten years ago we evaluated Hitachi, NetApp, EMC, and IBM high-end storage. Hitachi and NetApp won. 

Our primary use case in our company is as a reseller of the product. We don't have any Hitachi equipment solutions ourselves for production. We sell storage equipment to clients.

Popular usage for our clients is for email storage in telecall centers and for high-performance data storage and utilization.

I don't really know what parts of the product could be improved because it works well for me in testing and installations as a reseller. I would need more experience with it as a storage solution. However, I have not heard customers complaining.

One thing that can be improved is the price because it is a bit expensive. It would be easier to market and for clients to buy if the licensing were not so costly. It is not really a feature of the product but it is something that can be better.

The only feature I can think of is that it would be nice if it had data a duplication feature as an option. We have to use other products for this.

The stability is really very good. The clients never complain of downtime.

The scalability is good. We did have an incident with a client who needed more storage space on a G400 but they had run out of opportunities on their unit. The client felt that the limitation on the number of disk enclosures was not enough and should have more capacity. As far as scalability it may be better if it were either possible to expand the capacity or provide additional capacity initially with the device.

We have only three customers but some have several of the storage systems and use them for different purposes. There would usually be no problem in providing them with scaling except for cost.

The technical support is very good and responds with expertise quickly.

We worked with HP products before switching to Hitachi. The Hitachi product had everything we needed for our customer demands and we think it is a better solution.

The installation of the product is very straightforward. It is very easy. I stay busy while I am installing the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform) and Storage Advisor for infrastructure management. Both of these parts of the installation make for busy work but it is not hard.

My advice to other people considering this solution is that it is a very good product. It has very good stability, it is easy to use, it has a 100% data security and availability guarantee. It is a very, very good solution manufactured by a good company.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate these products as a ten because they do what we need them to without fail. For us they are perfect.

One of the tasks that I have been working on is the consolidation of storage.

This product is one that we have used to consolidate our legacy systems, all formerly residing on older storage. We have it configured for 150 terabytes in size, which is sufficient for all of our legacy applications.

It is also responsible for replication from our production site to DR site.

The performance is very good. 

The size of the storage is very good.

We use many of the enterprise features in production. 

This product should be easier to install and set up.

I have been working with the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series for three years.

This is a stable storage system.

This is a scalable product.

We have five or six storage engineers that are in charge of administration.

We get our support from a local vendor. If there is an escalation then it is done directly to the vendor.

I have experience with several enterprise storage solutions.

The installation and initial setup are not straightforward. We had to do a lot of configuration and required assistance from the vendor to complete it. In particular, there were certain things that there was some confusion about.

The location and the sizing were also things that we had to plan for internally. 

We used a consultant for the deployment, and we also had assistance from the vendor.

We pay for a support contract agreement.

We have decided to migrate our application to the cloud, which is something that we are currently in the process of doing. As such, we do not plan to increase our usage of this storage platform.

In summary, this is a stable product and I highly recommend it. It provides a trouble-free work environment. There are also newer models than the one that we have, and I also recommend these.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series are used for mission-critical storage for large companies.

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 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.

I have been using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for approximately seven years.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is highly stable and reliable.

The scalability of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is good.

The support for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is very good.

I would advise others that are wanting to implement Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series to look carefully at the tools they need, such as management. It is important to evaluate this tool, it can be very useful. If they don't have these tools needed then it can be very difficult to receive reliable information.

The customer has an in-house team that deals with everyday operations. However, they hired us to do the second-level support. We have two people, that do the support. One is for the storage itself, and the other handles data protection.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series tools are highly specialized, such as management and performance tools and the overall solution is expensive. If customers want to have a lot of data in their hands, they need to purchase several solutions.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is at its end of life, we do not sell them anymore.

I rate Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series a nine out of ten.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance. It has a good IOPS (input/output operations per second), particularly 300 IOPS, so this is what I like about it.

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series is not easy to use and this needs improvement. This product also has a complex setup and is not easy to implement. Snapshot operations for this product could also be improved.

I've been working on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series for more than a year.

I'm satisfied with the technical support for this product.

Implementation of this product wasn't easy. It took one week.

We implemented Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series through a local vendor team. There was an issue with the vendor so implementation took longer to complete.

I'm satisfied with the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series.

I'm rating Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series an eight out of ten, because of its complex setup.

We are Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for hard disk replication.

We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience.

We have not been able to procure more discs for upcoming projects and this has been a problem for us. Not having additional storage is going to be an issue. The solution is at its end of life and will be replaced soon.

I have been using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series for approximately 10 years.

The stability of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is good.

The technical support is good.

If you are migrating from Hitachi to Hitachi, it has not been a problem for us because if you have an existing model they will do the migration to a newer one. In case if you are going to change different OEMs you will have to have the right model equivalent for migration. For example, if you have an HPE solution equivalent to the Hitachi is 5100 then the migration is possible.

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.

I rate Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series a nine out of ten.