HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Reviews

The solution offers primary storage for our VMware environment.

We're still in the process of moving our workload over to it. We're going from an undersized array with SSDs to a brand-new technology with NVMe storage, and it's going to allow us to run our applications without having the kind of latency that was causing performance issues for our end users. Also, we're going to be able to do sandbox replication between our two data centers. 

The scalability is very good. 

The performance, stability, and price. Are excellent.

We're able to provide a cloud-like experience while managing on-prem.

It simplifies management a lot. My engineer made a couple of quick videos that included all we really needed to know how to train other people to do the work they needed to.

It's crucial for us to maintain 100% data availability and have that guarantee provided by GreenLake. We're a healthcare organization. We run hospitals and clinics. We need that uptime.

We're a big VMware shop. We do a lot with snapshots and things like that. We run our epic environment. We will run our epic environment on it, and we'll do snapshots for backups, snapshots for standing up, nonproduction, and test environments. I'm moving from one data center to another and using this as a storage target for it and planning on doing it without downtime. Disaster recovery will be an important aspect.

The acquisition cost was better than what we were looking at. I actually like the support mode where the software is on a subscription. It's going to force my leadership team to stay with the support. That's been an issue in the past where we've got to the end of the line with storage and then kept trying to run it without support. It's not a good idea. It always bites us. Therefore, we went with five years of support so that we could get a better deal out of the gate than the traditional three years.

We just started using the solution. With support, occasionally, we have a little trouble escalating things.

I primarily use the solution for three weeks.

Scalability is fantastic. It's got a clear path to increasing controller size to increase processor cores. It's using the Block storage. It's going to be wonderful for us.

I'm running two different models for primary storage. We're also putting in one for our Epic production database, and it's going to be two nodes with 32 core processors.

HPE support overall's been really good. Right now, we're in that space between deployment and support. When something's not right, we need to figure out if it is a support issue, or a deployment issue. Issues were primarily with compute, though. We didn't add any issue with storage that needed any support yet.

Positive

We used different solutions and had trouble with the performance setting. We were running a Unity 650.

The deployment was very easy. We spent one day with everything racked up and another day setting up the storage, provisioning a few servers, and making sure everything worked. It's straightforward and easy to do.

We had an HPE field service engineer out. He was with us for a couple of days. 

The pricing was very competitive, and it was better than the Dell EMC that we used to use. They made it easy to come back to HPE. Have a long history with HPE Storage, and it's just really never let me down. Since we were able to get it at a competitive price point, it was a really easy decision to make.

We looked at Pure Storage. We looked at IBM Storage.

It's rock solid. We were away with another vendor for a few years as a result of the merger we went through. And now we're coming home to HPE, and I couldn't be happier.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for storage provisioning and running demos. 

It helps us reducing the complexity in order to manage your storage systems. Simplifying the management of every array from several locations is difficult. One of the most important things for us is to reduce complexity, managing, and operating tasks. Our goal was not to have a lot of different consoles for every device. It unifies everything.

I really like Intent-based Provisioning. You don't need to know a lot about storage or where to place your data since the platform and artificial intelligence will help you do that.

The unified management experience has been great. That's a huge advantage. 

Having all the different services in the HPE GreenLake platform makes it really easy to switch between services. For example, if you have block storage and want to protect some more volume, you can go to Backup and Recovery or DR. Having everything integrated in one platform is a really good advantage.

The solution's 100% data availability guarantees our operations and businesses. Every second you lose, you're losing money. It's really important to have that 100% availability. Also, these days, with the rise of ransomware and so on, having guaranteed availability is essential. 

When it comes to disaster recovery, the solution allows us to meet and reduce our RPO and RTO strategies by 75% to 80%.

It's simple to manage and monitor our global block storage environment from a single cloud. It's also very intuitive.

The solution has reduced the amount of time we spend on storage management. We spend less time monitoring. It's saved us about 50% of our time. With everything integrated into one platform, there's less moving around. Plus, we receive email alerts and updates and so on. Management becomes faster and easier. 

A huge advantage of disaggregated architecture is that it allows clients to scale up to meet their needs. For clients, you can also start over-provisioning. Compared to other solutions, it helps users save a lot of other resources. 

AI-driven predictive analytics and performance reporting are helpful. If there's a problem in the environment, it will be caught before it occurs. This helps ensure that daily operations aren't affected by issues.

Our line of business or admins are enabled to self-provision storage. They have all the visibility of the different storage solutions no matter where they are. It gives users complete visibility and also allows them to manage capacity planning for the future.

The solution helped reduce the time required for storage provisioning by 70% or 80% or so. It's easy and intuitive. 

The solution could improve the integration with sustainability-related services. A lot of clients ask us about that. They need to develop a stronger integration with the compute part. 

We've had clients have some problems where it was really difficult to solve issues. They needed to apply some APIs, queries, and so on, and it was quite difficult. 

I've used the solution since it was released. It's been a few years now. 

I'd rate the stability ten out of ten. 

We have six to eight people that use the solution overall. We only have the solution at one location. 

I'd rate the scalability ten out of ten. 

We've dealt with technical support in the past, and they have solved our problems. We've been happy with their level of service. 

Positive

We did not really use a different solution. We've used other HPE arrays and did not have a cloud console.

The initial setup is straightforward. We were able to deploy it within one day. Two or three worked on the deployment. 

There isn't any maintenance needed once it is set up. The invisible upgrades make it easy to update.

Maybe purchasing through HPE GreenLake is more expensive than a traditional buyback, however, it's cost-effective since it allows you to access many different features and services that you don't have with a traditional purchase. 

We're an HPE partner. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's a new approach to storage provisioning that simplifies everything. Anyone can manage and operate it easily.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

For the most part, looking at how we consume data and pay for data at the end of the day is the advantage. The pay-as-you-go model is a much easier way to go.

Moving to a consumption model is highly desirable from the client side. everyone seems to be moving in that direction. 

It provides a cloud-like experience on-prem. It simplified it for the most part. When you look at a lot of the storage and historically how it's been done, you're doing a lot of forecasting, a lot of business justification, a lot of purchasing of hardware, and oversizing for growth, et cetera. The pay-as-you-go model is a much more simplified way of doing things. And it offers more flexibility.

The scale capacity improves and simplifies the experience in terms of growth and performance. A lot of clients I work with have performance requirements. I work heavily in financial and healthcare segments and those need 24/7/365 performance with no downtime. 

GreenLake helped to reduce our operational expenses.

The marketplace should improve. There should be a more robust variety of vendors. There should be more details about the vendors as well. It's hard to figure out what people really do and why. 

We do not use it internally; however, many of our customers do. We are part of the GreenLake infrastructure, and we work with clients to ensure we're integrated appropriately with those products. 

The solution is stable from what I have been told. I haven't had any complaints. 

This is a scalable solution. It's one of the most highly desirable capabilities. 

I've been pleased with the experience when dealing with technical support. Every one has been very responsive to the issues we have had. 

Positive

Since we're a third party, we support everybody that has cloud environments, Azure, AWS, et cetera. The benefit of GreenLake is that it brings that same experience to the on-premise environments. A lot of our clients, particularly in the financial space, particularly in the care space again, especially when dealing with a lot of sensitive information, and they don't like that information being leaked out or leaving the premises. So, having an on-premise version of a cloud-like experience is highly beneficial.

I'm not on the deployment side of the product. From what I've heard, most people seem pretty pleased with the setup experience. I haven't had many people point out specific deficiencies. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. They could improve the marketplace.

My use case is mainly for virtualization. Most of the workloads are virtualization. They're running virtual machines on there. Now I'm also deploying it for containerized applications. I also have a small Kubernetes stack storing its data.

I am a long-time HPE storage user and what I like the most is that they picked the best of both worlds and merged them together in one platform. 

I can start small. I can scale up. I can scale out. I can scale the capacity independently of the performance. 

The most important feature is that it's easy to manage. It has integrations with my application and with my software stack.

It's so easy. We have the full life cycle management doing updates, and it's just a button, so it makes life easier. 

The ease of management has the biggest impact. That directly impacts my daily life. With easier management with one console, the application team can use the same tool. It's much more efficient. The communication, the enablement, it goes much faster, and we are much more efficient.

The evolution over the last year has been good. They are doing a great job and have a good roadmap. 

We've saved a lot of time. However, how much time saved would depend on the number of actions or how you are measuring.

It improved your storage performance in iOS due to the technology that they're using and the NVMe Storage.

Today I get a better deduplication level compared to the previous generations. That means the price per gigabyte or terabyte is lower for me. 

It's still a block environment. The file storage is too big. If they can lower that so I can store files and objects on the same device, that would be great.

You need two different boxes for block and file storage. They aren't using the same hardware. It's the same hardware, yet not a compiled solution. I'd like one box in my data center. 

I see some features from InfoSight in the GreenLake management platform. However, it's not on par yet.

I've been using the solution for about a year now. 

HPE guarantees 100% availability. As long as I have electricity, it is stable. I've had no downtime. I've done updates and everything is a click of a button and nothing fell offline during the update. I've had no complaints so far.

The solution is easy to scale up and out. 

I haven't had to call customer service yet. That's a good thing. Most of the time, I could figure it out myself. If it is on par with my previous generation Ultra and Nimble Arrays then I don't expect to have a major issue with them.

The solution is a CAPEX for me. I'm not using it as a service with monthly or yearly billing. It is very competitively priced compared to my previous solutions. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

I would recommend the solution to others. It's easy to install, set up, configure, and maintain. It makes my life easier. 

I have an account on HPE GreenLake. I log in. I create a company profile/a customer profile. From there, I adapt switches and access points to manage them centrally on this GreenLake portal.

The feature I like is that I can create a template and apply it to multiple switches. I don't have to do the same task on every switch, and the same goes for access points. 

It's central management, with the features that come with central management.

So, instead of having to configure five switches from scratch, they inherit the default config when adapted to the portal. That's a good thing.

As with every central management solution, you don't have to do the same thing over and over on each device. You can do it once and apply it to many devices. That's what central management is about.

My main concern is that changes made on the devices take a long time to configure and show their status. It's very inconvenient how long this takes. For example, if I configure five switches at a time. They all come with the same default name, so I have to identify them somehow. I select the first switch, change its name, and save the configuration. But it still has the same default name. So, I'm having a hard time figuring out what configuration has been implemented... Is it configured? Why is it not shown in the portal?

I'm disappointed with the portal. 

The debugging of devices could use improvement. Connection problems on devices as well. Better logging within GreenLake to understand what's happening with devices—why something isn't working, those kinds of things.

I have been familiar with this product for six months now. 

From my limited experience, I would rate it a nine out of ten. I haven't had any problems with its reliability and stability yet.

We have around 20 switches and maybe 30 to 40 access points. We are on our way to implement this. So far, the scalability is fine. 

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.

We used just the command-line interface (CLI).

It was our partner that suggested GreenLake, so we switched.

I would rate my experience with the initial setup a five out of ten, with one being difficult and ten being easy. 

HPE GreenLake is a cloud-based solution.

I understand it is a fairly new solution, and I'm hoping for improvements. Until then, I cannot recommend it.

Overall, I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.