Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. SolusVM vs. vRealize Operations (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Hitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A
SolusVM
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
SolusVM from Plesk, a Swiss company, allows the user to Manage OpenVZ, Xen and KVM virtual machines from one central point.
$3
per month
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
vRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer available for sale.N/A
Pricing
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Slave Only
$3.00
per month
Enterprise
$10.00
per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Best Alternatives
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Score 8.4 out of 10
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Score 8.4 out of 10
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)SolusVMvRealize Operations (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Plesk International GmbH
SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.
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Discontinued Products
With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.
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Pros
Hitachi Vantara
  • Scaling Flexibility
  • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
  • Improving cost efficiency
  • Simplifying storage management
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Plesk International GmbH
  • Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
  • Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
  • Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
  • Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze
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  • Shows us where we can save on cost of keeping machines running, or boosting resources on VM's
  • the ability to plan deployments with scenario plans that can be customized over a specific timeline
  • reports that can be sent and shared with different teams or departments
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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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Plesk International GmbH
  • Less collection of OS templates
  • It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
  • Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO
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Discontinued Products
  • There are less space for customization.
  • Cannot use for OS monitoring.
  • Some option are very complex like getting an ideal VM report.
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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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Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.
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Support Rating
Hitachi Vantara
No answers on this topic
Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
The support is pretty good however some of the KB articles still reference different versions of the product so it can be hard to find answers to common questions
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Alternatives Considered
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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Plesk International GmbH
SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
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Discontinued Products
SCOM was quite overwhelming when we first set up a POC for it. There was just too much for one person to handle. With vROPs I can manage the product and provide the support needed for my environment. We also have a Solarwinds environment that provides us with a level of detail and alerting we have come to rely upon. vROPS takes it to another level because it links directly into vCenter to provide you with a complete picture of your virtual environment.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Hitachi Vantara
No answers on this topic
Plesk International GmbH
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
Not involved in purchasing.
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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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Plesk International GmbH
  • SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
  • It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
  • It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers
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Discontinued Products
  • We believe that the ability to preplan deployments with vRealize has proven its return on investments.
  • Our troubleshooting time has been reduced with vrealize because its constantly collecting performance data. typically vrealize will tell us cause of fault before we can determine it ourselves.
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