HPE Alletra Storage Reviews

We primarily use the solution for VM storage, file servers, and things like that. 

We've got around 75 VMs that run on the storage arrays. So the deduplication and features like that allow us to store a lot more on them than if we just did physical drives. 

They are extremely reliable. They just work. The cloud tie-ins alert us if there are any issues well in advance. The auto ticket generation is really useful for us as well.

Deduplication is a big one for us as it reduces our data costs. 

Their service has been really, really phenomenal. We've had drive failures. We had a whole system failure at one point, and within 24 hours they had us back online. 

The ability to duplicate data between systems has been really handy. We've got two data centers, and they handle the cloning of data between sites as well.

It provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem. They call it One View. For us, it's more about active monitoring of our on-prem solution and letting us know if there are issues with communication to our VMware environment, hardware issues, drive degradation, and that kind of stuff. That has been how we've utilized it. 

It's been pretty good at predicting problems. Besides the controller failure, everything else we knew was coming before it was a problem.

The guarantee of data available to our organization is important. We're a manufacturing company. If our systems go down, we lose dollars every minute that system's offline. That's why having high availability has been very important for us. 

Alletra helped reduce the time spent on storage provisioning. We don't really have to manage it very much other than increasing the size of the data storage. We don't really have to manage the system at all. It's very hands-off. We really don't have to do much to manage storage. We may just have to increase the drive size, and we're done. It doesn't really change our workflow a whole lot.

We have improved storage performance. We were using spinning disks in the individual servers prior to Alletra. 

If we have a storage ticket, we usually get someone on the phone within fifteen minutes when we call in and we're able to get a solution going and have parts we need for replacement within two or three hours.

The solution could use more monitoring of their split-brain system controllers. That was the failure we had. One of our controllers failed, and it led to an error in the split-brain module.

If we could have had the failure we had to be handled in real-time and not have to be offline and have parts ordered, it would have been ideal.

I've been using the solution for five and a half years now. 

The solution is really stable. We've only had only one issue in five years, aside from intermittent drive failures. 

The solution is very scalable. We've added drawers to increase storage space, and they scale well beyond our needs. 

Technical support is very good. We have four-hour support, and 99% of our issues are resolved within that timeframe. It's been rock-solid. When we've called in for advanced issues, within ten minutes, they are kicking us up the line to get to the person we need. 

Positive

We did not use a different solution.

The deployment is pretty simple. We haven't had issues with the configuration side. It just works. 

We used a reseller for our deployment. Our experience with them was excellent. 

The pricing and licensing are pretty clear-cut. We have a vendor that we work with that gives us a plain layout. 

We evaluated Pure Storage. Pricing may have been a deciding factor when compared to Alletra. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. There's always room for improvement. 

Its use case primarily is VDI. We are working with models 6050 and 6070.

Price, performance, efficiency, and reliability are its benefits. Those customers who used to be on 3PAR and Primera and are now on [HPE] Alletra [Storage] probably have two times performance improvement. The most important benefit has been the increase in efficiency. The efficiency has improved at least three or four times. Its pricing per gigabyte is also lower than what they used to pay for the older solutions.

It provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. Most of my customers who are on VDI are using VHCI and Private Cloud Business Edition or PCBE, and they love it.

It helps with day-to-day management. Especially when customers have multiple sites, they are able to view all their sites and manage all their sites from a single pane.

It can predict problems and prevent them before they occur. The main feature of Alletra is the inheritance of Nimble InfoSight. It is a big plus.

There is a guarantee of data availability, but that was not the only reason for going for this solution. They have availability of six nines on other platforms as well, but with Alletra, you have the whole package. There is efficiency, reliability, and proactive support with InfoSight. It is the whole package.

It has improved our storage performance in terms of IOPs, but I do not have the metrics.

The performance is valuable. The NVMe performance with VDI plays a big role. There is efficiency of the array and replication between two sites. A lot of customers use Alletra for production and DR and do replication.

They are definitely going to start pushing more on MP for files. This was an area where HPE was not very strong, but now, with Alletra MP, it is going to be very strong. Most importantly, there is going to be the flexibility of moving compute and storage on Alletra MP. This flexibility will be very good.

We have been using HPE Alletra Storage for the past two to three years.

So far, so good.

On regular Alletra, you can only add two shelves. That may be a limitation because you need to plan ahead of time about how you are going to grow. You might want to conserve the type of disk. It is a little limiting in terms of capacity. This is why MP is better.

We do work with HPE support. It is a little slow sometimes, but in the case of Alletra, that has not been the case. With Alletra, the level 3 engineering support has been more than okay. For Alletra, I would rate their support a nine out of ten.

Positive

We have not done its deployment. We do help some customers with monitoring, managing, and patching the environment. It is fairly new. Alletra has been there for about two years.

Overall, it was a good ROI for customers.

Overall, it was good. It had a good price per gigabyte.

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for VMware. 

The ease of operation and ease of use are important aspects for us. The throughput of the units itself is really impressive. 

The solution provides cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data. You manage it through the cloud or on-prem as well. It wasn't a drastic change from what we used before, as we used HPE products. It's all NVMe-based. The IOs were through the roof compared to what we were using before. We'd see bursts of up to 17,000 IOPs, whereas before, we saw maybe 5,000.

I've logged into the analytics program, InfoSight, and it's good. With InfoSight, we can get on there and it can give us pointers about if we need more storage, for example, or insights into caching.

The guarantee of data availability was very important when we were deciding on a solution. With HPE's background and the support we knew we were making a smart decision.

We've been able to reduce the time spent on storage provisioning. Compared to other HPE products that we've used, we have an ISCSI setup and we were able to build our storage setups very quickly. The simple UI made it so that it's just a few clicks to provision.

With what we've used the solution with right now, I haven't faced any issues. 

I've been using the solution for one year.

The stability of the solution is good. I haven't had an issue with it yet.

I'm assuming we can just add more drives if we need to. I haven't had to scale. We have two Alletras and they are sized for 100 TBs with current storage (with deduplication and compression) is maybe 50 TBs.

Support is good. I get all the answers I need. Some vendors were able to bring HPE people to answer support questions. I haven't had any issues when dealing with them. 

Of course, support always depends on who you talk to on the other end. Sometimes, with HP, there may be language barriers, and they seem to cycle through tech a lot more. That said, overall, I always get the answers I need. 

Positive

We've used HPE products previously. We also have Pure Storage.

It took nothing really to set it up. It was all online, and we were able to set it up and start using it within about three hours. We had experience with HP products that we used before.

We deployed the solution ourselves. 

We have not witnessed an ROI just yet. It has improved speed and performance overall. 

We did evaluate other options, and we have other storage that we have on-site as well. For what Alletras does, in terms of throughput, the cost is good. 

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are within a financial institution, specifically in banking.

An example of how these features have benefited my organization is that with Nimble, I had a problem in concurrency, and our database struggled with managing the hardware, which was the main reason I purchased HPE Alletra Storage. Currently, I have plans in the next month to install another HPE Alletra Storage unit to build a secondary storage. In the main data center, I have HPE Alletra Storage and need a second secondary data center.

Using HPE Alletra Storage has improved the performance of my storage and alleviated a bottleneck. 

The most important feature is the parallelism of several cores in HPE Alletra Storage.

I assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as being very efficient, with a large capacity. 

Direct access to senior support engineers is very important to me. For example, in order to use modern tools such as Zerto, I need support or some kind of training from an expert.

While HPE Alletra Storage has not directly reduced my data management operations expenses, it provides an indirect benefit. For example, in a recovery program, suppose that I have a ransomware attack, having a program to reestablish all the services can reduce costs in such critical scenarios.

I would like to see more parallelism in the next release of HPE Alletra Storage.

In my case, HPE Alletra Storage does not provide a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for one year.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage.

HPE Alletra Storage is performing efficiently as it scales with the growing needs of my organization, but it presents the next challenge for us because I'm running new kinds of tools Docker and Kubernetes in a pre-production environment. 

In the next months, I will be in the production environment, at which time I will have some related metrics.

I evaluate customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage as being very good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer service and technical support of HPE Alletra Storage a nine. It can always be better.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.

While you do need some help for an expert, it's not really complicated to deploy the solution.

I have not seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage yet because it has been less than a year.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage has been good.

Before HPE Alletra Storage, I considered Nimble and previously 3PAR. What stood out in my evaluation process about HPE Alletra Storage is its capacity to perform simultaneous operations and also the MIPS, million instructions per second, related to that.

My advice to another organization considering HPE Alletra Storage is that it is a good product; it's very stable equipment.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as a nine.

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are just our general use business.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are the stability and ease of use. These features have benefited my organization by making it a lot easier to manage.

The solution has reduced my data management operational expenses. It has reduced the time that I spend on data management tasks by thirty percent. The ease of use of managing the system contributes to overall efficiency. HPE Alletra Storage provides me with cloud-like data services that help me to manage my data and infrastructure.

I would describe my experience with HPE Alletra Storage as very efficient and very reliable; it's just great. The benefits of using this solution are that it's simple to use and it's been rock solid. My advice to another organization that's considering HPE Alletra Storage is to implement it; it's great and it will save you headaches.

I would rate the customer service and support a nine because it's a fantastic experience. I would also rate HPE Alletra Storage's post-launch support a nine.

HPE has come out with the essential part of a new feature, and I would like to see that completely implemented in the next release.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year.

HPE Alletra Storage scales in my organization, but we haven't expanded it yet. We have an order in place to expand our capacity, and it's rock solid.

HPE GreenLake AI and Ops have enabled me to get ticket assistance from senior support engineers to help navigate through support escalations. Having direct access to senior support engineers is important; we're a small IT team, so having somebody that you can reach out to right away is essential.

Positive

Before HPE Alletra Storage, we were using Nimble, and we just turned that on, so we stayed with HPE.

My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.

We have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage, but I cannot provide specific numbers.

My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is production server storage.

The speed and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage have benefited my organization by allowing us to avoid worrying about the high cost of moving to the cloud quite yet.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are speed and reliability. 

HPE Alletra Storage has reduced our data management operation expenses. Since we're such a small shop, we replaced two other storage devices with it, so the cost of support, maintenance, time, and labor has helped reduce our overall expenses.

HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time I spend on capacity planning. We don't spend a lot of time on that since we're so small. I assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as awesome because we've reduced from two storage arrays down to just one Alletra while still having so much more room.

HPE Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure. The cloud-like operational model of HPE Alletra Storage has affected our operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management by increasing our development to production time.

There are so many features of HPE Alletra Storage that I probably don't even know about, and as a small shop, we probably don't take advantage of half of them.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage.

HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization great. That said, typically, our expansion storage isn't very fast.

I would evaluate customer service or technical support for HPE Alletra Storage as excellent since I haven't had to call them at all.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using an old HP storage solution.

My experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage was easy.

I haven't seen an exact ROI with HPE Alletra Storage. I have experienced a reduction of labor, as managing one device instead of two has helped.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage was good, however, licensing is always a challenge since nobody enjoys those costs, though having support going forward gives me peace of mind.

Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage, I looked at Synology and remember that there was another option. I don't recall what it was. What stood out to me in my evaluation process was that Synology fits in between the straight consumer and enterprise level, as they didn't seem to have a full-on enterprise product HPE Alletra does.

We haven't had to do any support calls on HPE Alletra Storage yet, and it's been a year.

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage a ten out of ten and definitely recommend it to other organizations looking to upgrade from older equipment that doesn't have the same feature set.

We primarily use the solution for workloads in healthcare. 

The sizing is very good. We have new applications and new workloads and we have found the performance is very good.

The ability to use different workloads and different data is useful. It offers a good way to treat our data while guaranteeing high performance. We have 1 PB of data.

It offers a cloud-like operational model on-prem. Healthcare data is complicated, especially for data in the cloud. 

It's good at predicting and preventing problems. 

Guaranteed data availability is very important for us in health care. Having that guarantee of availability to us was integral to choosing this solution.

Alletra has helped us reduce time spent on storage. We've witnessed a 120X improvement in performance.

It's improved storage performance in terms of IOPS. It depends. If we compare it with other solutions, the performance is 2X better.

Alletra has helped us reduce storage-related tickets by 2X.

We have more than traditional use cases. If they could explore new configurations for data storage, it would be ideal. 

I've been using the solution for one year.

The stability is very good. It's better than other solutions. 

We have just started a project to scale the solution as we need more capacity. For the moment, the scalability is good. What you need to do in order to expand is very clear. 

HPE support is very good. We have a decent relationship with them. All of our questions get answered in a short time and the communication is very good. 

Positive

We previously used some solutions from IBM. We needed to change solutions and we decided to go with Alletra. 

The deployment was very easy. All of the documentation and instructions are very clear. 

We did have the help of an integrator. 

We have witnessed an ROI. In healthcare, people use a lot of Alletra. For us, it's easy to share the application. 

Licensing is expensive at the moment. Maybe they will lower it as more and more people begin to use Alletra. 

We did evaluate other vendors, including Pure Storage. Alletra was good for integration. Also, people who have worked with applications in healthcare know Alletra and have confidence in the product.

We are customers and end users.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for high data reduction. We use it for compression and deduplication. 

The most valuable aspect is the data reduction and compression. Space is important for our company and more space can get very expensive. Compression of data helps cut costs. If we have 100 TB of data, it can compress this quite well. 

It's very secure and reliable. It offers good high-level storage.

We use the on-prem interface, not the cloud interface. We always use Alletra as a local management solution.

It's predictive and offers a good high level of prevention for problems. It will go ahead and open a case if there is a problem.

Storage provision is good. It's easy to use. 

The guarantee of data availability is important.

We've been able to improve our storage performance in terms of IOPS. I've checked it recently and saw that it's improved.

We've been able to reduce the time spent resolving storage-related tickets. Now, it takes a maximum of two hours. 

We haven't seen any negative issues. 

It can be less expensive. It's very expensive for us. 

I've been using Alletra for approximately four years. 

The stability is very good. 

The solution is highly scalable. 

Technical support is fast and responsive. At a maximum, we'll get a resolution in one day. However, it's usually one to two hours. 

We did use 3PAR and Primera among other solutions.

We liked Alletra's high-level storage. 

The deployment was really straightforward and easy to manage. It's very user-friendly. You simply click through.

We have yet to witness any ROI.

We have two Alletra models and have recently added another product.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's reliable. It has many features, and the data reduction and compression are great.