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PROS

HPE Alletra Storage offers impressive speed and data transfer capabilities, enabling efficient data management and operations.
The integration with vCenter and HPE multi-storage plugin allows seamless usage of storage functionalities, enhancing ease of use and comfort.
HPE Alletra Storage provides excellent scalability, supporting rapid scaling without service disruptions and accommodating growing organizational needs.
The advanced deduplication and compression features contribute to significant capacity saving, optimizing storage space and performance.
HPE Alletra Storage ensures reliability and stability, offering robust performance with zero downtime, addressing technical debt, and delivering consistent uptime.

CONS

Incorporating NVMe alongside other storage tiers is desired, as the system currently operates on Autotier but can manually peer and mix different types of drives.
Cost is frequently mentioned as being on the higher side compared to competitors like Dell and Huawei, with many suggesting that pricing could be optimized.
There is a need for more monitoring features, particularly active-active controllers and improvements in managing split-brain system controllers.
Installation challenges are noted, with difficulties in connection to cloud services, which some companies find necessary despite preferring not to use cloud connections for storage purposes.
The need for improved licensing terms and pricing, as it remains a challenge, particularly for smaller businesses looking for more affordable options.
 

HPE Alletra Storage Pros review quotes

TL
Systems Specialist at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Jun 26, 2025
The most valuable feature of HPE Alletra Storage for me is the Data Services Cloud Console and the cloud provisioning, even though it's all private.
Anand Algesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at CyrusOne
Jun 24, 2025
Feature-wise, it's pretty simple; just a one-click button to enable it, so implementing it was pretty easy too.
ST
Senior Linux Storage Administrator at Pella Corporation
Jun 25, 2025
The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are the ease of management via CLI, as we have written many homegrown scripts that access the CLI to automate our processes to either increase storage, create snapshots, and refresh snapshots.
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Andy Albrecht - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology at centrexIT
Jun 25, 2025
The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I most appreciate are the super fast new NVMe drives, which are amazing.
reviewer2729496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Technician at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Jun 24, 2025
In our evaluation process, both the cost of the solution and our familiarity with the way that solution worked were what stood out to us as driving factors, with no significant negatives to report.
HenryConwell - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at Natural Organics, Inc.
Jun 25, 2025
The most valuable features of HPE Alletra Storage that I have found are performance and ease of configuration. It's overall fantastic.
Nadeem Ashfaq - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology Infrastructure & Cloud at Easypaisa
Jun 24, 2025
The feature I appreciate most about HPE Alletra Storage is compression.
Ridip Baruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Converge Systems & Services Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 10, 2025
Since the deduplication and replication parts are there, the data is compressed and stored, which is why users are happy with the storage performance.
JW
IT Director at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2025
I like the fact that when I log in, I can get access to all of my different infrastructure components, and I can manage them through the web portal, and that makes things very easy as opposed to having to jump through different management interfaces or administration consoles.
reviewer2729982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administration Senior Technical Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 25, 2025
The feature I appreciate the most about HPE Alletra Storage is how easy it is to provision storage.
 

HPE Alletra Storage Cons review quotes

TL
Systems Specialist at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Jun 26, 2025
Speaking specifically of the 6K Alletra series, the renewal process can be complex due to the sheer volume of SKUs.
Anand Algesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at CyrusOne
Jun 24, 2025
To improve HPE Alletra Storage, it needs to have a true active-active controller; it claims to have an active-active controller from the back end, however, the second node is pretty much sitting there doing nothing.
ST
Senior Linux Storage Administrator at Pella Corporation
Jun 25, 2025
HPE Alletra Storage could be improved by adding support for file-based or S3 storage, as we have NetApp as our NAS storage.
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Andy Albrecht - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology at centrexIT
Jun 25, 2025
To improve HPE Alletra Storage, I suggest adding more expansion capabilities.
reviewer2729496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Technician at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Jun 24, 2025
The best way forward is to continue keeping the product lines within the Alletra brand specialized to what makes them good, ensuring that the features from where 3PAR was good, Nimble was good, and Apollo was good are maintained so that customers who have relied on them can continue to count on their availability.
HenryConwell - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at Natural Organics, Inc.
Jun 25, 2025
I would like to see the costs of HPE Alletra Storage go down a little bit.
Nadeem Ashfaq - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology Infrastructure & Cloud at Easypaisa
Jun 24, 2025
I would like to see more compression and more scalability in the next release of HPE Alletra Storage.
Ridip Baruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Converge Systems & Services Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 10, 2025
The challenge I face is that the recent models launched are not available now. When we pitch a solution to a customer and sell HPE Alletra 6000, the customer sees that the product has been discontinued by HPE.
JW
IT Director at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Jun 25, 2025
Reducing the price for HPE Alletra Storage would be fantastic.
reviewer2729982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administration Senior Technical Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 25, 2025
We struggle to gain access to senior support engineers. Typically, we need to escalate via sales.