HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

"The solution is easy to use."

"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."

"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."

"The most valuable feature of HPE Alletra dHCI is the one-click upgrade function, which allows all drivers and services to be downloaded to all servers easily."

"The latency is very low."

"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."

"The technical support services are good."

"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."

"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."

"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."

"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."

"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"

"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."

"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."

"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."

"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."

"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"I can tier my data in different storage on the cloud, but I cannot tier the data with HPE Alletra dHCI."

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

"The deployment of a new server could be improved."

"They could expand product support to Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Linux platforms."

"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."

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

"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."

"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."

"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."

"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."

"The networking needs improvement."

"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."

"They could improve the packaging."

"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."

"The prices are very high."

"I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."

"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

"The product is very affordable."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is much cheaper than the competition and has value proposition. Customers can see an ROI in three months. There are no additional costs, and VMware licenses can be reutilized."

"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."

"The product is costly."

"Its price is aligned with the market. In addition to the standard licensing fees, there is an integrator cost."

"Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."

"Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

"There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems."

"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

"Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there."

"All the licenses are included when you buy the program."