HPE Alletra Storage Reviews

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage include SAN storage.

The integration with VMware assists my organizations.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are the UI. It functions as a black box. 

HPE Alletra Storage enables me to get assistance from senior support engineers without having to go through support escalations.

There is a one-click upgrade, which works well.

It's reduced our operational expenses.

We've been able to reduce time spent on capacity planning by 30%.

The capacity efficiency is very good. As a local government organization, we're barely filling it up.

The cloud-like operational model is great. 

HPE Alletra Storage could be improved by making the units lighter. This could be implemented in the next release.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for just about two years.

I would assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage as great; it's fantastic. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues because of HPE Alletra Storage.

HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization effectively. We have not expanded usage or added anything to the HPE Alletra Storage.

I evaluate customer service and technical support as great. On a scale of one to ten, I rate customer support and technical support as ten.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using another solution to address similar needs. The other solution was Nimble, and the factors that led me to consider the change included signing up for GreenLake.

I would describe my experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage as fantastic. We didn't face any challenges. 

I enjoy using HPE Alletra Storage as an engineer, however, I cannot say I have seen a definitive ROI with it.

I really don't deal with the financial side. That said, my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very good.

I don't know what other solutions I considered before selecting HPE Alletra Storage.

My advice for other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage is to consider its ease of use, integration with other HP products, and the helpful GreenLake portal. There are very up-to-date and valid plugins inside of vSphere, and I use it in VMware. 

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

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.

Positive

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.

Our main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are for databases.

The benefits for my organization include reduced operational workload and complexity.

The feature I appreciate most about HPE Alletra Storage is its simplicity.  

HPE Alletra Storage has reduced our data management operation expenses. The cloud-like operational model has drastically affected operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management, improving our management timeframe.

HPE Alletra Storage enables me to get assistance from senior support engineers without going through support escalations. The direct access to senior support engineers is crucial for us.

The solution has helped reduce the time spent on capacity planning by approximately two to four hours. The uptime was notably improved compared to our previous system, being two to four times faster. I have not expanded usage yet.

HPE Alletra Storage could be improved in the observability GUI by consolidating information in one place instead of having it separated. It's currently too compartmentalized.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for at least two years now.

I haven't experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

HPE Alletra Storage is scaling effectively with the growing needs of my organization. We don't have problems.

As an engineer, the internal service we provide for running databases receives positive feedback from database administrators. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a nine. This rating is based on their fast response time and readily available assistance when needed. The escalation process is very efficient.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using HP 3PAR to address similar needs.

I would describe my experience deploying HPE Alletra Storage as very good and straightforward.

I have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been very good without any problems.

Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage, we were considering Dell's solution, though I don't recall the specific name.

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

My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is storage.

HPE Alletra Storage enables me to get assistance from senior support engineers. The cloud-like operational model has affected operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day tasks—all of the above. 

Direct access to senior support engineers is very important. Spinning up a new VM and provisioning storage for it is significantly easier than doing it manually. HPE Alletra Storage provides a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure.

I don't know how HPE Alletra Storage can be improved; I will have to ask my team what they want next.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about six to seven years now.

I have experienced some issues, not necessarily downtime. That said, we had some controller issues at one point; however, since I have redundancy, we really didn't experience any downtime.

HPE Alletra Storage scales very well with the growing needs of my organization.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support as very good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer service a nine. 

I have a very good rapport with the support personnel at HP; they are familiar with my environment, and when I call, they call me back. I simply tell them, 'This system is doing this,' and they already know what to do next.

Positive

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using NetApp to address similar needs.

I would describe my experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage as seamless.

I have not seen an ROI with HPE Alletra Storage.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was fair. Compared to what we had before with NetApp, HPE Alletra Storage is much cheaper, and the maintenance renewal is much cheaper as well, which is why we went with Nimble or HPE Alletra Storage.

Before choosing HPE Alletra Storage, I considered EMC, Dell, and IBM.

My advice to other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage is to buy it. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as a nine.

We have deployed it across our on-premises setup. We have two data centers, with our clusters distributed between them. There is a synchronous replication between all those clusters for complete data protection and business continuity.

The guarantee of data availability is very important for our organization because the revenue and productivity depend on the critical data, which is segregated between different tiers as per the application mapping. This data is extremely valuable for us in running our business operations and generating continuous revenue.

We started seeing the benefits immediately after the deployment of this platform. We could see the benefits in terms of reduction in outages, controlled backup scenarios, encryption, etc.

Alletra helps simplify storage operations, such as provisioning and day-to-day management, and it also lowers the cost of data protection because the service level agreements are very achievable. A complete flash array architecture enables us to leverage all high-performance GPUs and CPUs within the cluster.

Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. It enables all third-party integrations that we are looking for, thus saving a lot of time, effort, and energy.

Alletra provides complete data protection integrity. About 90% to 98% of our operational time is using intent-based provisioning, and our overall objectives are met with this platform.

Alletra saves a lot of time in managing the complete storage architecture as well as planning the budget. We can easily provision more storage. When needed, we can immediately add more arrays, and we are good.

The overall cost along with the tied bundle services is quite favorable for us. We are saving a lot of money after procuring Alletra. There are about 30% savings as compared to our previous platform. We have also saved on resources. Earlier, we had ten resources for management and operations, whereas now, we have six resources.

The most important feature is scalability, which enables us to rapidly scale without any disruptions. We can easily scale up to more arrays without stopping any services. In-line expansion of arrays is possible without disrupting current data. There is asynchronous replication across these clusters for comprehensive data protection and business continuity.

I do not have any areas of improvement as such. We have achieved all our defined objectives and metrics. Everything is performing well with no major problems or complaints and complete data protection. However, it could benefit from integrating an AI assistant module to streamline data migration between different vendor arrays in a more automated fashion.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage since 2021.

Since deployment, we have not faced any downtime, data leakage, data loss, synchronization, or module failure challenges. Aside from other minor operational issues that are similar to those of other vendors and technology solutions, there have been no major disruptions affecting performance.

Alletra provides modular, non-disruptive scale-up and scale-out. Alletra is crucial for scenarios where time-sensitive applications are running and relying on data storage volumes. If such features were missing in the platform, it would be challenging to maintain productivity and collaboration within our organization.

We are happy with the quality and speed based on the severity of the issue. Whenever I submitted a case with a defined level of priority, I received excellent responses. About 99.9% of my problems were resolved when I contacted them for technical or non-technical issues. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

We used Hitachi previously. We chose Alletra because of its operational simplicity, scalability, and stability. The cost factor was also important.

Initially, the setup was difficult for us. The approach we followed in our legacy environment made the migration challenging. However, after completing the preliminary steps, everything proceeded smoothly, and everything is now updated without issues.

Its pricing is very competitive.

I would rate Alletra a ten out of ten.

HPE Alletra Storage provides predictable performance and capacity for applications without data integrity trade-offs. This predictable performance and capacity helps operations by providing exact numbers for upfront storage usage and predictable capacity performance.

It's user-friendly, easy to configure, manage, and very flexible for both VMware and physical servers. The synchronous replication between data centers is also very good.

It has very good compression and deduplication, which makes it one of the best in the market. 

It helps when it comes to simplifying storage operations, such as provisioning and day-to-day management. It is very user-friendly and provides a single pane of glass to work with. 

It provides a cloud-operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure through the GreenLake solution, allowing users to manage and monitor storage on-prem from a single pane of glass, both on-premises and in the cloud.

In HPE Alletra Storage, areas that have room for improvement include the network-attached storage, specifically the NFS performance.

I've worked with HPE Storage for about ten to fifteen years. In the past, the storage had a different name. I’m recognized as an HPE Master Storage professional, which means I hold a high-level certification. I have been working with HPE Alletra Storage for a long time.

HPE Alletra Storage is very stable, and security patches are announced and easy to install, warranting a rating of excellent stability.

It's very scalable.

Our clients are medium sized organizations.

My thoughts on HPE's technical support are very positive, rating at nine out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with Dell and NetApp storage. HPE Alletra Storage is reliable, stable, and very effective on fiber channels with excellent support, making it a high-end storage solution at the top level compared to other storage solutions.

I find it relatively straightforward, but there may be some issues with getting it registered properly in the HPE system and portals.

It does not require much maintenance and is easy to maintain.

The solution has helped reduce data management operations expenses by 20% to 40%.

It's a little bit over prized. The pricing of HPE Alletra Storage depends on available rebates. Other storage solutions such as Dell are slightly cheaper, while alternatives such as Pure are more expensive. The price point is good but somewhat high.

I would recommend HPE Alletra Storage to other users because it is reliable, stable, flexible, and suitable for enterprise and production environments. 

I would rate it a nine out of ten.