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Dell PowerVault vs HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.3
Dell PowerVault offers cost savings, competitive pricing, and workload consolidation, providing a strong return on investment and market value.
Sentiment score
4.3
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 improves ROI and offers cost savings, with flexible expense models aiding technology upgrades.
This represents money saved and time saved, because one person has been able to store, view, modify, analyze, stop, and work properly on the administration of their own equipment and the entire storage farm that is under a single console.
Since we already have a very simple environment and a quite resource-optimized environment, I think the major return on investment with Dell PowerVault was above all being on a super stable, reliable platform that gives us the confidence to continue growing using the same platform.
IT Team Leader Latam at MC Bauchemie
The platform allows customers to consolidate multiple workloads in a compact design, making it very cost-effective and budget-friendly.
Pre Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have seen a return on investment from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.
Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT
I have seen a return on investment, which is a little more nuanced, as with HPE GreenLake for File Storage being an operational expense allows me to do a lot more with fewer dollars, spread over the course of the contract.
Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
in normal scenarios, almost 20% or maybe 30% cost savings can definitely be achieved.
General Manager Of Sales at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.5
Dell PowerVault service is efficient and highly rated, but regional issues and customization needs affect support experiences.
Sentiment score
7.3
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 support is praised for responsiveness but criticized for delays and regional availability issues.
Supporting Dell PowerVault is very easy.
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer ( DELL EMC & VMware) at NTT DATA
The technical support for Dell PowerVault is pretty good and they usually get back to us in a couple of hours with a technical engineer.
Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
When things get more complex and there are interdependencies with other vendors, Dell still struggles a bit, for example, regarding Microsoft products.
Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group
Concerning the storage itself, they're pretty damn close to perfect.
Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I evaluate the customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as excellent so far.
Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Normally, with the Nimble systems and with HPE Alletra MPs or HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with Nimble OS, we have not had many support cases in the last years.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.4
Dell PowerVault is ideal for SMBs with flexible scalability, though larger enterprises may face connectivity and performance challenges.
Sentiment score
7.3
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers scalable, cost-efficient storage, easily handling significant workloads and increasing data demands efficiently.
I don't face any issues with security with Dell PowerVault.
Senior Presales Solutions Engineer ( DELL EMC & VMware) at NTT DATA
Dell PowerVault has features that specifically address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses because it is always very well received with the price-performance ratios that we have repeatedly seen out in the field.
Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group
It is a system that was chosen specifically for this capability, allowing extension as needed and providing scalability on demand.
Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 scales with the growing needs of my organization in terms of performance for applications.
Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT
I haven't seen any issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in terms of scaling capacity and performance independently.
Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Upgrading from a smaller controller to a more powerful one is straightforward for enhancing speed, or you can extend the network ports.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Dell PowerVault is praised for its stability and reliability, featuring seamless integration and redundant power supplies for enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.3
Users praise HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for its constant stability, exceptional reliability, and seamless updates, ensuring 100% availability.
This was especially important given the choice to store video that is extremely critical both from a general point of view and from a legal point of view, where data must be kept and secured.
Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable, performance is acceptable, and has good integration with backup, with interfaces like Fibre Channel and SMB to expose to the client.
System Advisor at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would say the stability and reliability of Dell PowerVault are good because for the last two years, I have not faced any failure—not a single failure.
Technical Implementation Specialist at AltiusTech Health
The experience has no downtimes or crashes, and the performance is good.
Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT
The stability and reliability level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very good.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
In the past three years, I have not had even one escalation call.
Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Dell PowerVault needs improvements in performance, integration, cost-efficiency, and support to enhance scalability and user experience.
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 requires faster updates, improved interfaces, better support, and versatile configurations for customer needs.
It would be beneficial for Dell to enhance outreach to new customers directly to prevent resellers from scaring them away with higher pricing.
Associate Vice President - Technical Services Group (TSG) at HGS
Only when environments become more complex, especially in the enterprise area, does Dell PowerVault struggle in the software area, including centralized management.
Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group
There are two aspects to consider: replication, meaning replicating data from one site to another concerning Dell PowerVault, and another very important area where significant improvement is needed—everything related to expansion rules.
Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
In a price-sensitive market like India, obtaining an administrator is much more cost-effective than the cloud alternative, which is almost four times as expensive.
Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees
We have deliberately crashed all four compute nodes, and the secondary storage site manages the workload without any virtual machines malfunctioning.
Infrastructure And Systems Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The DSCC portal offers replication information, but it is not available in the integrated GUI.
Storage Architect at DXC Technology
 

Setup Cost

Dell PowerVault is cost-effective with reasonable initial costs, though licensing can be expensive, offering competitive market pricing.
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers competitive, fair pricing with negotiable terms and cost-effective options like HPE GreenLake.
I don't think it's terribly priced, but Pure Storage is cheaper.
Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Dell PowerVault is fairly within the budget for our operations and for our client's operations.
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer at Fonicom
If you use a PowerVault with SSD hard disk, it begins to be rather expensive.
System Technician at Lidingö stad
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is not so expensive.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was good.
Technical Integrator at Physicians Mutual Insurance
Regarding pricing, this year I compared it with other vendors, and HPE is still on par with what the other vendors have out there, so I'm comfortable with the pricing.
Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Dell PowerVault excels in scalability, stability, and cost-effective storage, offering seamless integration and enhanced data management for businesses.
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers scalability and efficiency, enhancing management and reducing downtime for IT teams.
We've even used PowerVault series that we intended to use for five years for almost eight years, and it was still working fine, providing good ROI compared to any other brand.
Associate Vice President - Technical Services Group (TSG) at HGS
What differentiates Dell PowerVault from other storage solutions is the performance combined with the ability to meet significant bandwidth consumption needs.
Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
This mainly gives us time to react and provides us with peace of mind that if something happens, we can be up and running within a span of approximately 30 minutes.
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer at Fonicom
Regarding DR, the RPO and RTOs are very good.
Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT
Regarding the predictive analytics feature of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, you can analyze information over the DSCC, the Data Center Cloud Console, where you can see a lot of information to indicate whether the system has had problems or not.
IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH
The performance level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 impacts our organization's processes by enhancing operational efficiency.
Product Engineering Architect at 11:11 Sytems
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerVault
Ranking in Enterprise SAN
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Fibre Channel (1st)
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
Ranking in Enterprise SAN
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Public Cloud Storage Services (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Enterprise SAN category, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault is 13.5%, down from 30.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is 3.6%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise SAN Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell PowerVault13.5%
HPE Alletra Storage MP B100003.6%
Other82.9%
Enterprise SAN
 

Featured Reviews

Storage has supported long-term CCTV archiving and improves on-premises application performance
I think it would be good regarding how Dell PowerVault could improve to have, in addition to the excellent support service that exists, some training courses, forums, and a training school for using these tools. Many people specialize only in this kind of equipment, and others have no idea how to configure them or how they work and always end up depending on people who have spent a long time working with these systems and know how to handle them more because of experience than because of information that can be easily obtained about using this equipment. Everything regarding additional aspects that could be improved in Dell PowerVault has already been mentioned.
reviewer1309695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure And Systems Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
High‑availability block storage has protected critical research workloads and boosted VMware IOPS
It is difficult to provide specific areas for improvement at this time. We may realize approximately 20% gains in the future, but the previous SAN we used was not very time-consuming, so the improvement is not very significant. We anticipate gains of approximately 10 to 20%. The management interface could be simplified. The cloud console contains two main sections: one for hardware and one for logical volumes on the LUNs being managed. This split is understandable because the hardware console contains HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for block storage and HPE Alletra for backup, both accessible in the same console. The separation of the SAN hardware console and the backup console is logical and understandable. We have four compute nodes, and the system was not designed to shut down gracefully with only two compute nodes remaining. Running with just one compute node functions properly, and the system continues to operate at reduced capacity. However, when we experienced a crash involving half of the system, HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 failed completely. This behavior is documented as normal in the documentation, but we hoped the block storage could manage to run with half the power. This capability will be available in a future release but is not included in the current version. Our testing before moving to production was not entirely successful, but this aligns with the documented specifications. When we perform failover and data center crash tests, the system performs very well. We have deliberately crashed all four compute nodes, and the secondary storage site manages the workload without any virtual machines malfunctioning. This level of reliability is excellent, and it demonstrates why we selected HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. Improvements in this area would make the solution even stronger.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
7%
Media Company
11%
University
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerVault?
Budget is one concept I am not aware of because I am not really involved in it, so I cannot comment on whether Dell PowerVault has contributed to staying within budget for operations.
What needs improvement with Dell PowerVault?
I had one issue with managing comprehensive storage data management features such as snapshot, replication, and provisioning with Dell PowerVault. Once you create the LUNs, you can always expand th...
What is your primary use case for Dell PowerVault?
Someone approached me to get a review of my experience with Dell PowerVault. I have used Dell PowerVault servers on multiple sites, and recently, those were customer sites. I work for one organizat...
What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
We are facing issues related to your services and support with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. Your product is very good, but we are facing technical issues and issues related to queries that have n...
What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
I usually recommend HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in the government sector. We are the integrator, not just a consultant or using Cisco products ourselves.
What advice do you have for others considering HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
We are still working with Cisco products as we are working with Cisco also. We are mainly focused on HP, but for server and storage related needs, we are working with Dell also. We have been dealin...
 

Also Known As

PowerVault
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Dayco, FAW Foundry, University of Cambridge, Finder, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co.
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