Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued

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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Capacity planing is great, and heat map analysis is phenomenal with its drill-down capabilities and versatility

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• Intergreation of legancy storage solutions
• Single pane for future storage configurations
• Amazing replication capability for disaster recovery purposes

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• Resources allocation estimates are amazing, this feature allowed us to increase density on our hosts by reclaiming RAM and CPU from over allocated VMs letting us increase the amount of VMs per host. The report was very clear and easy to understand.
• The planing feature enabled us to gather all the info we needed to plan hardware purchases as it showed us, with our current rate of deployment, when we would reach capacity in or environment.
• The heat maps provided excellent drill down capabilities allowing for proactively resolving potential issues.

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• Ease of use can be increased so that SMB segment could leverage without the need of having a storage administrator
• Firmware upgrade for the legancy storage device from HSVOS pane

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• It would be nice to be able to make configuration changes either directly in vCenter Operations Manager or have it link back to the correct locations in vCenter.

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Support has always been very good with vCenter Operations Manager.

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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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SolarWinds as an overall tool is much more flexible. It allows you to perform tasks based on events, whereas the vCenter Operations Manager monitors your environment. SolarWinds costs more.

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• It is quite an expensive solution compared to other vendors so we cant expect a ROI within 3 years time as always.
• 3 years has been a standard ROI review, however storage solution like Hitachi SVOS are meant to lasts for a longer period like 6 years in my consideration.
• However, this solution provides a great benefit to make use of legacy appliances.

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• +Helped us identify a performance issue where our cluster was under-sized. We were able to order new hosts to bring performance in-line with expectations.
• +Saved us from purchasing a third-party monitoring tool.
• No negative impact.

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