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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A
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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    There are few points due to which Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) is better than ONTAP. Firstly, it is designed is such a way that it can virtualize any vendor's block storage which ONTAP cannot do in specific cases. It's amazing virtualization power …
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    Chose Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    In my experience, Performance is much better with Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) for our testing cluster compared to Netapp ONTAP solution
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    Chose Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
    There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio …
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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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    Hitachi Vantara
    Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance
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    Pros
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Scaling Flexibility
    • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
    • Improving cost efficiency
    • Simplifying storage management
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    Cons
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost is too high
    • Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
    • Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner
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    Usability
    Hitachi Vantara
    It combines with enterprise level storages very well. Due to its high reliability & uptime, it is valued greatly by such institutes. Secondly, it's advanced virtualization reduces the complexity & cost, which in turn results in maximizing hardware utilization. Performance efficiency is amazing even under heavy workloads. Built-in cache optimization and automated tiering help ensure efficient data placement.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit
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    Return on Investment
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost had bit of negative impact
    • Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business
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