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Senior Consultant at Inacomp
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Good integrations, helpful reporting, and helps save time spent on storage usage
Pros and Cons
  • "It's got an integration with InfoSight."
  • "I would like to see some form of direct connect fiber channel options."

What is our primary use case?

The solution is our primary storage for virtualization.

What is most valuable?

It's got an integration with InfoSight. There are metrics that are provided by it and the support that we get from Nimble Alletra Support is great. The insights we get are important. All of the reporting we get and the recommendations we get on performance impacts are helpful. It predicts problems and helps prevent issues. 

It's helped us save time spent on storage usage. Due to its integration, we've had an 80% to 90% reduction in storage provisioning time. 

It's helped improve IOPs. We size the solution properly and customers have been happy with the results.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see some form of direct connect fiber channel options.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used Alletra Storage for a long time.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good. There are options. 

How are customer service and support?

Support is fantastic for Allerta. Everything else from HPE isn't as good. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Our customers are switching from other vendor options. I've been recommending Alletra to them. 

I have experience with other storage solutions within the HPE family. I haven't used other vendors. Alletra is top-notch within the HPE family in terms of performance and support. 

How was the initial setup?

I've deployed the solution before. An Alletra by itself is simple to implement. When partnered with dHCI, it's a bit more complex. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is good for the market that I serve. The subscription model is tough for them. We can do multiple terms now. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
Reduces downtime, offers good rack density, and has a 100% data availability guarantee
Pros and Cons
  • "The workload consolidation is very simple to manage."
  • "The solution could improve the upgrades. In Brazil, it's difficult. The price is very high and it is not an easy process."

What is our primary use case?

We sell the system to our call center in Brazil.

How has it helped my organization?

The workload consolidation is very simple to manage. Previously, the customer had four Nimble storage solutions, and we were able to consolidate them into one Alletra. 

What is most valuable?

InfoSight reduces downtime.

Customers are happy with the speed and management of the storage. 

The DSCC is good.

It offers good density on the rack. It's a very dense storage. 

The solution offers a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data. The management is easier. The DSCC helps a lot. It simplifies the storage process. The customer has GreenLake and they can easily see the costs of Alletra storage by workload. 

Alletra is good at predicting and preventing problems. InfoSight, via the portal, helps with this. We don't need to access the equipment. InfoSight will automatically generate a ticket, and the engineer will call us if there are issues. The process is automatic, and it prevents downtime.

The data availability guarantee is helpful for us, as resellers. It helps us convince the customers the product is very good and well-built. 

The solution helps prevent time spent on storage provisioning. It's simple to deploy. Compared to 3PAR, we spend 80% less time on storage provisioning. In 3PAR, you need to provision the CPGs, select rate levels, and manage the free space, which is very complex. Alletra simplifies all of that with a single console.

It's improved our storage performance. We have a 3PAR hybrid. Alletra is new equipment with more speed and all-flash. We've improved our IOPS from 10,000 to 8,000.

What needs improvement?

The solution could improve the upgrades. In Brazil, it's difficult. The price is very high and it is not an easy process. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for two to three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is excellent. It's 100% stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

For some projects, we need to put in two or three systems. They could improve the scalability in terms of space. 

How are customer service and support?

In Brazil, the SLAs are not being met. Tickets are delayed a lot. It's not so good. We call support, mail them, et cetera, and they do not answer. Last week, a ticket that needed to be solved in six hours took one week.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Our clients previously used Nimble. We're also familiar with 3PAR.

How was the initial setup?

We use fiber channels. The deployment process is fairly straightforward. 

What about the implementation team?

HPE managed the deployment process. As resellers, we assisted our clients with setup.

What was our ROI?

I have not witnessed an ROI as our customers would have more visibility on that. However, I have heard the performance is one area customers are impressed with. The speed improves the customer experience and they can build out their strategy faster and change strategies as needed. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing and licensing are not my area of expertise. I'm an architect. However, the pricing is a bit more complex in Brazil and there are a lot of taxes. It's not cheap. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We're a reseller of HPE, so we only deal with HPE solutions. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. If they had 50% more scalability in a single system, it would be ideal.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Multicloud Architect at Intility
MSP
Competitive pricing, works well with VMware, and offers very good performance
Pros and Cons
  • "The GUI for onboarding is straightforward."
  • "For the 6000, we'd like to see active-active controllers."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for VMware virtualization. 

How has it helped my organization?

It [HPE Alletra Storage] offers more performance and better value for money than Nimble Gen 5 arrays. It's very stable.  

What is most valuable?

The VMware integration is very good. Not all arrays have such a good integration.

The GUI for onboarding is straightforward.

We chose the 6000 with local GUI over the 9000.
As for the 9000 you need to use DSCC to manage the arrays.

The solution does provide a cloud-like operational model on-prem. We haven't used it so much since we have built own on-prem tools and do not really need management software in the cloud. We prefer our own data centers for data and management sovereignty. That way, if there's a major incident where we have to cut off the Internet connection. Then it's a bad thing to have the management software in the cloud.

It's good for predicting and preventing problems before there are major issues. We like that HPE can collect the data and we get information to see if something is prone to errors. That way, we don't have to be the first ones to experience errors. We get a heads-up.

The DSCC solution helps reduce time spent on storage provisioning. However, VMware has also improved on with VMware vVols, and so the impact is minimal for us.

Alletra has helped with improving the storage performance. It offers good storage performance overall. 

What needs improvement?

For the 6000, we'd like to see active-active controllers. For the 9000, Alletra has it. Yet it doesn't offer the superior agile functionality of the 6000.

For how long have I used the solution?

I started using the solution when they first came out in 2021. I used to use Nimble before that.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is great.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It could scale a bit better regards to VMware vVols.

How are customer service and support?

They offer really good support. One of the reasons we went with 6000 was due to the fact that they kept Nimble support.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used Nimble Gen5. With this solution we got better performance for value. 

How was the initial setup?

Setup was easy and straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented it ourselves.

What was our ROI?

We have witnessed an ROI, although I do not have concrete metrics.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is competitive. Compared to Pure Systems, it's less expensive. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate other options before choosing Alletra.

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It offers good performance and support.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Senior Storage Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Top 20
Enables us to check every metric, including bandwidth and latency, at a granular level
Pros and Cons
  • "We have the most advanced HPE products available that we can monitor with the HP InfoSight feature, which enables us to check every metric, including bandwidth and latency, at a granular level. Alletra's mechanism is excellent and can handle multiple traffic sources. Anything is possible. Regarding your application, the IO behavior can be random, sequential, or a database. It serves web and e-commerce applications better."
  • "More training videos would help. We could learn some best practices. Sometimes, people may not follow the best practices and reach out to support, who will tell them that they need to follow these best practices to get this performance or result."

What is our primary use case?

We typically use Alletra NVMe drives for high-performance applications requiring more than 200,000 IOPS per second. We also have HPE's 3PAR, the most advanced version of the storage array. It can address most application issues and has less than 2 millisecond latency. 

How has it helped my organization?

We had faced issues with 3PAR because the drives slowed down, and we constantly had to change the capacity. There was too much incoming data, and the CTDs were always full. We needed some compression, deduplication, and provisioning. Even after applying all these techniques, we still faced some issues with space. 

But Alletra has high-capacity NVMe drives, so we no longer have a problem. There are no spikes, regardless of our incoming IOPS or my customer's application requirements. The solution immediately addresses the needs of any applications. 

Also, you need not worry about backend vulnerabilities. It is an awesome product. You deploy and run it without worrying about what's happening at the security level.  It's better than other storage classes like MSS. These NVMe models have played a significant role here.

We achieve storage availability by maximizing usable storage while minimizing hardware storage requirements. We have almost three petabytes of data space, and we're only using one petabyte, leaving two petabytes available.

What is most valuable?

We have the most advanced HPE products available that we can monitor with the HPE InfoSight feature, which enables us to check every metric, including bandwidth and latency, at a granular level. Alletra's mechanism is excellent and can handle multiple traffic sources. Anything is possible. Regarding your application, the IO behavior can be random, sequential, or a database. It serves web and e-commerce applications better. 

HPE InfoSight lets you see all the alerts from SSMC and proactively log cases. It will automatically raise a ticket to HPE when critical hardware fails. You get an idea about what will happen and be proactive. You can see when a node will restart so we can investigate and work with support. We can also see how nodes and ports are performing. 

DataCare helps you manage allocation mapping and firmware upgrades. We can also replace drives, troubleshoot, set up applications, update proxies, and take backups through DataCare. 

What needs improvement?

More training videos would help. We could learn some best practices. Sometimes, people may not follow the best practices and reach out to support, who will tell them that they need to follow these best practices to get this performance or result. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used Alletra for nearly two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The batteries, BIOS configuration, and power supply are much more stable than the previous models.

How are customer service and support?

I rate HPE support eight out of 10. Their support is kind, and they respond quickly.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have IBM's flash array. We face too many problems with IBM's flash array because the code is unstable and nodes must be restarted. We haven't seen these issues with Alletra. We also use Oracle Cloud and plan to use AWS, but the cost is too high. 

How was the initial setup?

Alletra is straightforward if you connect it properly. Once it's plugged in, you assign IP addresses and start configuring the security

What other advice do I have?

I rate HPE Alletra nine out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Manager, Enterprise & Cloud Architecture at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Fairly priced, high uptime, and can be easily used by junior admins
Pros and Cons
  • "There is ease of use for junior admins. We have VMware integrations for data stores, cloning operations of existing data stores, and InfoSight analytics."
  • "I do not have any issues with it. It has been good for us. There are no cons that I see, and that is why we use it."

What is our primary use case?

It runs our corporate and restaurant data center.

How has it helped my organization?

It reduces the need for a specialized storage engineer. Uptime has been high, so it has reduced outages or downtime.

HPE Alletra Storage provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. It reduces the need for advanced engineers to do configurations and customization.

It routinely opens tickets on its behalf for support and hardware replacements without our intervention and downtime.

The guarantee of data availability is very important to our organization.

HPE Alletra Storage has significantly helped reduce the time spent on storage provisioning. We have always used it, but I know from dealing with other storage devices that it significantly reduces the complexity and the time to deploy.

The operating system works well for IOPS. It has got more overhead than we use, so performance has been good. 

HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time spent resolving storage-related support tickets. There is auto ticket generation and auto hardware replacement with support.

What is most valuable?

There is ease of use for junior admins. We have VMware integrations for data stores, cloning operations of existing data stores, and InfoSight analytics.

What needs improvement?

I do not have any issues with it. It has been good for us. There are no cons that I see, and that is why we use it.

There are no additional features that I would want to see. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution since HPE bought Nimble. It has been five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It scales fine. We have added shelves on an add-need basis in the past without any issues.

How are customer service and support?

HPE provides good customer service for us. We have never had any issues with response time and resolving problems.

How was the initial setup?

Deployment was very simple and straightforward, performed by junior administrators.

What was our ROI?

In my view, we have got our return with the ease of use and reduction of technical skill sets. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is fairly priced. It is in line with industry standard pricing and cost models.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated IBM, NetApp, and Dell solutions. I chose HPE in the end because Nimble was a very stable platform that I have used for a long time with great success.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate it a ten out of ten for simplicity, uptime, cost, and InfoSight analytics.

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Principal Systems Engineer & Global Team Leader, Financials at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Small footprint, good capacity, and good performance
Pros and Cons
  • "The extended capacity offers a small footprint that's still meeting a large customer demand."
  • "I'd like to see larger cluster sizes beyond four nodes."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for infrastructure for one of our global financial customers to allow them to scale up and out.

What is most valuable?

The distributed hyper-converged infrastructure is great. Just having the ability to scale independently storage compute is useful. 

The extended capacity offers a small footprint that's still meeting a large customer demand. 

The cloud-like model will be helpful. I can see it will make things much more efficient once we get to that point.

For predicting and preventing problems, it looks like it will be a very useful feature. It will simplify operations and Day Zero and Day One operations.

Its guarantee of data availability is important. It will be one of the key aspects for the customer. 

It will help save time around storage provisioning once implemented fully.

The simplified provisioning of storage compared to other solutions in and of itself will make it more efficient.

Customers have an existing solution they can compare the performance of IOPs to. This product looks to be as good or even better. However, that's yet to be determined. 

Alletra should effectively reduce the time dealing with support tickets once it is fully implemented. It likely will improve by a factor of two to three, although we aren't at that point yet.

What needs improvement?

From what I've seen so far it's definitely checking the boxes of what the customer's looking for.

I'd like to see larger cluster sizes beyond four nodes. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for four months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It seems to be robust, and since it's based on the Nimbe product line, it will be mature. that stability will be fine. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Going up to four nodes is not as scalable as I'd like for horizontal scaling. Vertical scaling is huge. That said, the ability to go beyond four nodes would be of interest to customers in the future.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't dealt with technical support yet. However, I'm sure it will be fine. I've seen a lot of focus on support. HPE will definitely bring its A-game. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We use Dell. They are looking at the smaller footprint and simplicity as far as managing the product which is why Allertra is so attractive. 

How was the initial setup?

We haven't deployed the solution yet. That said, just talking to the HPE deployment team and watching the demo, the process seems like it will be very simple. We'll be able to do it in hours instead of days or weeks. 

What about the implementation team?

I'm an integrator. I'll help my clients handle the implementation. 

What was our ROI?

With a smaller footprint, there will be less power consumption. There will be more effective capacity as well, and less rack space used. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I've heard the licensing is going to be much, much more streamlined than what they're used to currently. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

The customer is also looking at Hitachi, although it's more complex. Plus, the customer already has a significant HPE footprint. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. From an effective capacity, power, and footprint standpoint, it edges out the incumbent.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Improved storage performance, has an availability guarantee, and good for predicting problems
Pros and Cons
  • "It's easy to deploy and maintain and it's made everything faster."
  • "I'm not sure if I've gone through all the features. There's always room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use it in our customer environment that has more than two or three hosts. We don't have to worry about meeting any of the network vendor requirements for storage.

How has it helped my organization?

It's made everything faster.  On the array that we use internally, it has eliminated all of our storage bottlenecks, which has really quieted down all of our alarm systems, so it just made our days quieter.

What is most valuable?

It's easy to deploy and maintain, and it's made everything faster. 

It does offer a cloud-like infrastructure. However, it depends on what you are trying to do. The cloud-like perception is mostly seen during the deployment of HP GreenLake. While it is multi-tenant, that's not how we use it day to day.

While it's good for predicting problems, we don't have many. I don't know how many tens of thousands of sensors are on the Alletra arrays. Whenever there has ever been a problem, there has been a sensor, an email, et cetera. If it's a problem with the hardware or a failure that's even pending, something gets shipped out, and a case is auto-created and auto-closed for us. So it pretty much just does all of it.

The data availability guarantee is crucial. While it doesn't reduce the time spend on storage provisioning, it's fixed and has made the management easier. That's where its time savings comes into play.

It's improved our storage performance in terms of IOPs. I don't know what our figure was before, but it's at least double, and we upgraded from a Dell EMC Unity.

It's reduced the time spent resolving storage-related support tickets. It's not that we have so many storage-related support tickets. It's that when we have storage issues, latency issues, or alarms, someone has to look into them. I'm not sure if it's the product itself that's made this better or if it's been the upgrade and support that we get from HPE. 

Our main array that we upgraded from was a Dell EMC Unity. We also had Nimble and MSA storage in the network. The reason we switched is we just needed the performance and the networking.

What needs improvement?

I'm not sure if I've gone through all the features. There's always room for improvement. 

I'd like an easier way to tune the alerts that email us. If we have a remote site that has issues, we have alerts that queue up and then once that gets resolved everyone gets flooded with alerts. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for the last three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is very good. I've never had an issue with one dying. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

While it may be possible that the solution is infinitely scalable, I don't have the network need to continuously scale up. I don't know where the ceiling is.

How are customer service and support?

HPE Nimble support is world-class. I'd rate it ten out of ten. Non-Nimble storage support is horrific. I'd rate it two out of ten since it takes so much longer to get to the correct team. Once you get to someone, the support is pretty good. It's just getting there that is hard. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used a Dell EMC Unity. We also had Nimble and ASA storage in the network.

How was the initial setup?

Deploying the Alletra iSCSI platform was easy peasy. I could do it in my sleep. The Alletra dHCI platform was more of a headache. It requires a lot more planning and is more unforgiving during the initial setup. Once it's up and running, it's excellent.

What about the implementation team?

We used a consultant to assist with the implementation. 

What was our ROI?

We've witnessed ROI in terms of smoothing out the bottlenecks and discovering the root problems. I don't have specific KPIs or metrics for ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is very good. That said, every vendor is a spiderweb to navigate. It's a pain, everywhere.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated five different vendor solutions and this one, based on its performance and cost, was a win-win. We had hands-on experience and were more comfortable with HPE products. That said, the main driving factor was the cost.

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It's my personal favorite piece of storage. That said, there's always a new product and feature coming up in tech. 

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A clear winner on price per terabyte and very good for redundancy and performance
Pros and Cons
  • "The overall redundancy and performance of the system is valuable."
  • "They can continue developing their V vaults and peer persistence. They can implement active-active peer persistence so that our organization can use it."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for our backend Tier 0 storage.

How has it helped my organization?

It is the core foundation for our disaster recovery plan and high availability plan. We use Peer Persistence in conjunction with VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster to fail over critical workloads between data centers on a quarterly basis.

HPE Alletra Storage tries to provide a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. The cloud-like operational model has not affected operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management. It is not enterprise-ready.

We have not seen much evidence of the fact that HPE Alletra Storage can predict problems and prevent them before they occur.

It is important that they guarantee data availability. They have had to pay up multiple times because they were not able to provide the availability, and so far, they have kept their word.

HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time spent on storage provisioning. It has saved about 20% of the time. With each iteration, they are getting better at their user interface.

HPE Alletra Storage has improved our storage performance in terms of IOPS. There is about 50% improvement.

What is most valuable?

Multi-node or the four controllers and the port persistence are valuable. The overall redundancy and performance of the system is valuable.

What needs improvement?

They can continue developing their V vaults and peer persistence. They can implement active-active peer persistence so that our organization can use it.

In the next release, we would like more V vault support with metro clustering or peer persistence.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for two and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We were early adopters, so we got to see some of the worst of Alletra. Since then, it has become much more stable. It is definitely a much more stable product now.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Their support is pretty good. I would rate them a nine out of ten.

HPE has dedicated a lot of resources to our organization to ensure that we are successful. There is definitely a lot of collaboration between our organizations to support Alletra.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using 3PAR and Primera. We switched because it was a refresh into the newer technologies.

How was the initial setup?

We are mostly on-prem, but we do use Azure as we have started to do a hybrid model. 

Its deployment was very smooth and simple.

What about the implementation team?

We did it ourselves. It was very straightforward.

What was our ROI?

We have seen an ROI. As data continues to grow in our environment, driving down the price per terabyte is essential for us to be able to continue to afford the performance they give us.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

HPE was a clear winner on price per terabyte. It was very smooth.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Pure, and we evaluated EMC. The main difference was the price per terabyte.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage an eight out of ten. If they can improve some of the things, that would take it to ten.

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