HPE Alletra dHCI Reviews

We are providing solutions to our end customers. I work in a distributor company. We are using this product, and we are providing the solutions to the customer as well.

Hyperconverged offers good performance. It's more effective, and it's giving us more performance. It's like an all-in-one solution. Therefore, it's all in one solution instead of going with different components. It offers easier management. 

We have something called Autonomous Support System, which issues a ticket whenever there is an issue. It's run on artificial intelligence wherein if there is any issue in the system, the software, generates the case itself. It will resolve the case and it will close the case. This is one of the great features of Nimble dHCI. 

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

The disadvantage is we don't have granular upgrade capabilities.

For dHCI, there are some prerequisites, so we cannot pitch the solution to just any customer. They should have some network ready. For example, they should have specific network switches compatible with Nimble dHCI. Otherwise, we have to include those switches in the solution, which will make the solution more expensive. 

Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions.

The deployment should be much simpler. 

I've been using the solution for two years. 

The initial deployment is a little bit complicated. It could be made to be a bit easier. 

In our current scenario, only HPE engineers can deploy. An engineer with general-purpose skills cannot deploy those systems. We need HPE-certified engineers only to deploy this. This is one of the major concerns.

The cost is a bit high.

We are a partner and distributor to the dHCI.

dHCI is still a new solution in the market. There is a lot of scope for improvement. I will give it a seven out of ten.

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.

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.

I have used HPE Nimble Storage dHCI within the past 12 months.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is highly stable because they're using Nimble as the storage. Nimble has almost a hundred percent uptime for availability.

I have found HPE Nimble Storage dHCI to scalable, you can keep on adding the modules.

Nimble calls the customer, the customers do not call Nimble. They have a proactive approach.

The main difference between HPE Hyperconverged and HPE dHCI is dHCI is Disaggregated Hyperconvergence meaning, you are able to keep the existing investment on the HPE platform. For example, when a customer is done, they don't need to throw away that investment because they can re-utilize them in the dHCI configuration. Secondly, it's more scalable at a component level. That means I can upgrade when required, such as the storage or the compute needs separately. I don't need to do the same as they were doing I'm other solutions, such as SimpliVity.

The setup is straightforward.

The implementations of Nimble are very smooth and the deduplication techniques and everything else, are pretty good.

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

I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI a ten out of ten.

Due to the fact that we did not have any kind of storage technology here at all when I first started out here, we purchased the SAN with three HPE ProLiant DL360 servers from Nimble and the solution we purchased was their dHCI implementation as it was supposed to do the setup and everything by scripts automatically. Right now, it's running my production and my DR environment.

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

Generally, I use it for the DRF and I make sure that my VMs are all up to date. I make sure that they're all sitting on a host that's got decent resources. If they need to be moved, they'll get moved. 

I like the memory management and I like the instant clone feature they have for the Horizons. That's what I'm using. I'm not utilizing the view, I'm utilizing their instant clone from VMware Horizons - vStorage motion, and things like that.

The scaling is great.

Technical support via the phone is helpful.

It's still kind of a new solution. I know when I purchased it, it really wasn't ready for prime time as I had to go through at least five or six deployments before it actually stuck. We were having a lot of issues. As far as where I'm at with it right now, I can't really complain. They're finally bringing it together where it can do updates through their one menu interface for the Nimble and that updates everything, the ESX hosts, the vCenter, it does all that for you. They've gotten better. 

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. That's about the only problem right now.

The only thing I would like, and this may be more on the VMware side, however, going back to that SQL issue, I would like to be able to maybe have more granular control over my IO channels on my server. If I needed to troubleshoot why one server, one drive in a server, which is virtual, is having high latency, I should be able to go in and troubleshoot that specifically without having to go through and try to look at a ton of graphs. That's probably the only thing - just the granularity of it. 

The reporting on Nimble to Nimble replication could be a little bit better

We've been using the solution for the last two years. 

So far it's been pretty easy to scale.

In terms of usage, the software that the entire company uses is called Latitude. I run that on my Nimble storage. I've also got our development infrastructure on there. The virtual desktop infrastructure is running from there, Exchange, everything is running from the Nimble - my entire production environment essentially.

On the phone, Nimble support is really good when I call. That said, in terms of the guy that came onsite, I had to redo the cabling. He was a good guy, however, something got messed up and I had a lot of problems. I had to redo all the cabling. I'm not really complaining, it's up and running now. While they are great on the phone, in person the experience wasn't the best.

When I first started, they only had individual Hyper-V hosts and really no major storage. When we went from one to seven Hyper-V hosts that were individual nodes not even clustered, we decided we needed something that allowed for a cluster environment, and that's why we moved to Nimble. 

We actually had to have HPE come on-site and set up the MLAG due to the fact that we bought two switches and they had to set up the Multiple Link Aggregation Group. That part of it's pretty complex. Other than that, with the setup now, if I purchased another server, plugged it in, and configured just the default that it needs, I can add that server pretty quick to my stack without any problems.

Originally, we had HPE come in and assist with the implementation.

For what it is, in terms of the scripts, if they worked initially the first time and the deployment was actually as easy as they stated it would have been out of the box, it wouldn't have been a problem. That wasn't the case. The pricing was a little high upfront for that reason, for me. Now that we've got everything running, it's not much of an issue. That said, we bought two complete Nimble setups with three ESX hosts, two M-Series switches, two UPS's, two racks, everything, one for here and one for my DR site. It was a lot of money we spent upfront.

We're just a customer and an end-user.

Right now, I haven't seen any issues. If a company wanted to purchase it, that would be something I would recommend as it does take out a lot of the guesswork as far as the networking, the storage considerations, the storage adapter of how it connects, and it takes all the guesswork out and sets it up for you. 

The basic thing to consider is when you get it out of the box, you set it up, you turn it on, the scripts run, you have your vCenter, you just start spinning up VMs at that point. It saves a lot of time instead of doing all of that individually and setting up your own vCenter, the storage, and everything. 

I was glad it had the scripts when they actually ran and it did connect everything in the backend. It did make it a lot easier. Out of the box, if purchased new now, would be a great option. Two years ago, it had a few problems and it's my understanding that those issues are mostly resolved.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

We use the tool regularly for strategic purposes.

The solution works well. It is similar to other products.

Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts.

I have been using the solution for ten years.

I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.

The tool is scalable enough for all clients. Our clients have several thousand employees.

There are few field support engineers available. We have to wait for spare parts.

Neutral

I rate the ease of setup a seven out of ten. The setup takes one day. We need a few days for migration and to get the product running.

The prices are very high. I rate the pricing an eight or nine out of ten.

I worked for an IT integration company. Now, I am a consultant. We work with customers who do not need much scalability. I recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

Our main goal was to be able to use the [inaudible 00:01:19], to be able to make the backup more efficient.

Nimble is easy to use, but hard to install. Once it's installed, it's user-friendly. Reporting is another advantage because we get a lot of statistical forecasting. It helps us see into the future with that.

We have used Nimble storage for two years.

I rate Nimble 10 out of 10 for stability. You install it and forget about it. 

I rate Nimble 10 out of 10 for scalability.

I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team.

I rate Nimble eight out of 10 for affordability. The license is based on capacity. 

I rate HPE Nimble Storage seven out of 10. It's easy to use. You can set it up and forget about it. The integration with VMware is solid, and it's easy to upgrade. It isn't the best on the market, but far from the worst. 

I work in a company which provides networking solutions and infrastructure. We use HPE Nimble Storage dHCI for our work with VMware.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is a good solution. Load-wise, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is better than other solutions like NetApp.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's firmware is very tough to get. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently. It is also difficult to upgrade the solution as compared to its competitors. We are facing a very tough situation with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. The solution’s stability and encryption could be improved.

I have been using HPE Nimble Storage dHCI for three years.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's stability is good. I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI a seven to eight out of ten for stability.

Five to eight customers are working with the solution.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's technical support is good and excellent.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI’s initial setup is straightforward. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's deployment does not take much time. Compared to other solutions like Dell Data Domain or NetApp, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is easy to deploy and configure.

With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more.

I use the latest version of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI.

Overall, I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI an eight out of ten.

My clients typically use HPE Nimble Storage dHCI when they have done a migration from basic solutions that have clusters based on VMware and they have migrated these solutions to a hyper-converged solution based on dHCI. Additionally, they have the possibility to configure and grow separately with the computing solution from the storage solution. HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is used normally in different kinds of hyper-converged requirements including databases. When you require high growth on dHCI or hyper-converged, the HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is the right solution.

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

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.

In a future release, I would like to add something similar to support or the capability to predict any kind of failure based on the software with the cloud, or management support from the wholesale. HPE has always the control to know what could happen and resolve these situations before they fail or close.

I have been using HPE Nimble Storage dHCI for approximately one year.

The solution is highly stable.

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is scalable. If you compare on the market the different kind of solutions, almost all have the same limits. The node scalability is approximately 60 and those are typical limits for all of them.

I would rate the technical support of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI a nine out of ten.

The initial installation is fairly easy. It's a configuration that is not simple. However, it does not take more than half the day to complete but it depends on the number of clusters or nodes that you add to the hyper-converged.

The cost of the licensing is reasonable.

I would recommend others to use this solution.

I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI a nine out of ten.

We run a private cloud for law firms. We use the solution there. It offers VDI for remote access. 

The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness. 

HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is fast and easy to use. My favorite feature is its support. You will get support within one minute.

The product is expensive. 

I have been using the product for seven years. 

The tool's stability is good. 

I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's scalability a ten out of ten. 

The tool's deployment was complex. 

HPE's team helped us with the product's deployment. 

I rate HPE Nimble Storage dHCI a ten out of ten.