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HPE Alletra dHCI pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.1 out of 5

31 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

HPE Alletra dHCI combines excellent stability and 99% availability with features like one-click upgrades, seamless cloud integration, and efficient workload optimization, enhancing performance and scalability. InfoSight offers predictive analysis, while Nimble dHCI ensures high performance through in-line compression. Despite the benefits, technical support is inconsistent, setup can be complex, and it's limited to VMware, making it pricier than other solutions. Some integration issues with cloud services persist.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Nimble dHCI offers high performance with efficient in-line compression and seamless cloud integration for bi-directional volume movement.

HPE Alletra dHCI provides excellent stability and up to 99% availability while maintaining high performance with quick installation and easy management.

HPE's InfoSight offers valuable predictive analysis and detailed information, adding value through its competitive advantage and AI-driven support features.

HPE Alletra dHCI features a one-click upgrade function that facilitates easy downloads of drivers and services, contributing to superior performance, resilience, and scalability.

Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI stands out for its cost-effectiveness, high availability, and overall price-to-performance ratio, benefiting from substantial support in workload optimization.

CONS

Technical support response times are inconsistent, sometimes taking two to three days.

Lacks integration with cloud services.

Initial setup is complicated and lengthy with ongoing issues.

Only supports VMware as a hypervisor, limiting its compatibility with other platforms.

The product is more expensive compared to other hyperconverged solutions.

HPE Alletra dHCI Pros review quotes

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Maherilanja Randriakoto

Operating Officer at iCone

Aug 9, 2020

Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex

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Shivanand Hadapad

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2020

Very good in-line compression.

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Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Dec 3, 2020

The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud.

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Enterprise Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Sep 7, 2021

I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information.

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MA

Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 9, 2021

The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads.

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Sales Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 28, 2021

It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors.

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Krishna RaoKalavala

General Manager at Zenith Business Solutions

Nov 23, 2021

HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good.

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AS

Systems Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC

Dec 22, 2021

Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability.

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Solutions Architect Data Center Servers and Storage at Tecnologia informatica

Jan 27, 2022

We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs.

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Owner at Teamone computers india Pvt Ltd

Apr 12, 2022

So far, the solution's performance is very good.

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HPE Alletra dHCI Cons review quotes

MR

Maherilanja Randriakoto

Operating Officer at iCone

Aug 9, 2020

Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond.

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Shivanand Hadapad

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2020

Lacking integration to the cloud.

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Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Dec 3, 2020

Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick.

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DM

Enterprise Administrator at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Sep 7, 2021

The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot.

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MA

Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 9, 2021

The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options.

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Sales Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 28, 2021

The initial setup is a little bit complicated.

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Krishna RaoKalavala

General Manager at Zenith Business Solutions

Nov 23, 2021

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement.

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AS

Systems Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC

Dec 22, 2021

Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better.

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Solutions Architect Data Center Servers and Storage at Tecnologia informatica

Jan 27, 2022

This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged.

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Owner at Teamone computers india Pvt Ltd

Apr 12, 2022

I'm not sure if there are features lacking.

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