HPE Alletra Storage Reviews

My experience with it has been good. I primarily use it as a storage backend for my applications. I like it for that purpose.

It's been important for automating some of our workloads. For example, we had some heavy processes that would sometimes crash. Alletra has made managing those easier. 

I like that it's simple to manage. It offers rich features and high speed for transferring data. 

We had some issues while installing it on our servers. It required more resources while cross-checking. So, the initial setup process could be better. Sometimes, it has trouble discovering other servers; it would be nice if there were a way to streamline the connection process.

I have been using it for a year. I use it in my company.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. It is a stable product. 

This product offers good scalability. I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. 

The support team is great. But the response time could be faster. 

Neutral

We had some issues while configuring it.  It takes a while to get that working correctly. It would be helpful to have clearer instructions or a configuration wizard for that part.

We have it configured as a cloud solution.  

There is a license. HPE Alletra uses a cloud-based model. This means I'm focused on procuring on-demand resources for customers. As such, for future use, we bill based on device consumption rather than the traditional datacenter model.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I would recommend using the solution. First, this solution can be tailored for specific business needs. Secondly, it excels as a standard server for data management.

We primarily use the solution as a hybrid cloud. 

It's easy to do a tiered storage for caching, et cetera. Clients find it easily expandable in size. They can start small and layer on. 

Clients like the insights tools within the solution that came from Nimble and were pulled in.

Once it's set up, it's easy to make changes from the cloud interface. 

You get alerts and can easily find out what's important and what's noise.

Alletra helps clients reduce time spent on storage provisioning. As a partner, we set it up for them and help design it. Some remain clients, and we continue to maintain it. Other smaller teams take it on themselves, yet they can pick it up pretty quickly.

It's easier, with the insights to figure out where you are having a problem. Before, it was hard to figure out where the bottleneck was. This provides better visibility. 

They are starting to add more blocking tools. It's lacking natively, however, they seem to be adding in more. The more they can integrate it into one dashboard, the easier it will be for the client. 

The solution is generally bulletproof with easy upgrades. 

The scalability is excellent. A nice piece of Green Lake is adding cloud scalability without having to redo anything on-prem.

We sometimes wrap our service with HPE Quickstart. They are generally good.

Positive

Some clients have used older HPE. Others have used older Dell EMC products. Many change to Alletra based on GreenLake as it offers a combined platform.

The performance of Alletra is very good. Once it's set up, it's very good.  

We've been doing smaller implementations. The initial setup itself is pretty easy once you know what you are doing. The learning curve is okay. When GreenLake first came out and we first started integrating it, it was bumpy. It's easier now. 

We help our clients deploy the product. 

Most clients gain ROI by gaining efficiency within their own teams.

I don't directly deal with pricing. The cost is not very cheap, however, people tend to see the benefit of it. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

We were replacing our 3PAR with Alletra. 

Alletra has mainly helped our organization by offering us improved performance. 

The speed is very impressive. The reliability is excellent. We haven't had a single issue with it.

Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem. It hasn't affected operations. 

It's very good at predicting and preventing problems. It's very robust. It notifies you of any issues at all. That said, we haven't had any early warnings. I've seen some messages. Overall, I'm pretty impressed at the proactiveness. 

The guarantee of data availability has been important. To have that kind of guarantee is something we don't get from other vendors.

Alletra has helped reduce the time spent on storage and provisioning. 3PAR was pretty easy on this count as well. It does reduce maybe 25% or so. 

The solution has improved our storage performance in terms of IOPs by about 15%.

We haven't had any storage-related support tickets.

I'd like to see a migration tool. That doesn't seem to be available on Alletra. It was fairly difficult to migrate the data from 3PAR over. 

I've been using Alletra for about two years. 

The stability of the solution is rock-solid. 

It's really easy to expand Alletra on the fly. We don't have to take an outage, which is important.

We haven't had any issues per se and haven't had to call support.

We previously used 3PAR. It was coming up on the end of life, which was why we switched. 

We got it up and running in just a few days.

Deploying was really straightforward. It's just a matter of hooking it up to the fabric and then learning the management interface. That was probably the biggest time-consuming factor - just learning the differences between the new management interface and 3PAR.

We got the product through GreenLake. We had someone from HPE come out and provide a basic overview. 

We have witnessed a bit of ROI since using Alletra. 

Licensing and cost weren't an issue at all. 

We didn't really look at other solutions. We considered NetApp, however, it got eliminated quickly based on price and performance. Alletra was a lot better. 

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten based on the performance, reliability, and price point. 

We primarily use the solution as a data center SAN.

It's been providing us with insanely fast storage. That's pretty important for a data center.

We have access to InfoSight. It provides immediate insight into what's going on in the array's incredible software.

It's good for predicting and preventing problems. It's pretty impressive that we end up getting proactive ticketing on some issues that occur right there on the array. That aspect is pretty great.

Alletra has helped our storage performance in terms of IOPs. We shifted from a hybrid to an NVMe. It's much, much faster.

It would be great if it cost less. 

They shouldn't strip out anything from InfoSight. That is really helpful software to see how the storage arrays are performing and has helped us do a lot of troubleshooting. They should keep up the good work on the hardware side since it's great. However, the InfoSight software is really invaluable.

We invested in Nimble originally and then transitioned to Alletra, so we've maybe used both for five years in total.

The solution has been rock-solid. 

The scalability is very good. 

Technical support has been very helpful. 

We previously used the Nimble array. Before that, we had a component array. I wasn't there for the original conversation about switching six or seven years ago. 

We've witnessed an ROI. The difference of what we run internally vs the cloud is night and day difference in terms of cost.

The one-time buy-in is ideal for us. It makes a data center more compelling than a cloud, as the costs are known. A lot of businesses have been shifting to a service model. While I get the appeal from the finance side, that will only expedite a team's move to cloud services. If I'm paying monthly for something that's on-prem and I'm paying monthly for something that's in the cloud, I'll just shift my infrastructure needs to the cloud. Yet the costs will change. However, the predictability of having that one-time cost is everything for the data center.

I'd rate Alletra ten out of ten. If we ended up not thinking it was best in class, we would have moved away from it. 

Our main use case is virtualization. We have integrated it. We have iSCSI in our VMware environment, and we also tried OpenNebula. It is KVM-based. That is the main use case for us.

It helps the organization to deploy storage LUNs faster and with less effort.

Data availability is very important for us. We do not want to lose any data. The data has to be present nearly 100%. Since we have been using Alletra and Nimble storage, we never had an error.

HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time spent on storage provisioning. Before this, providing storage LUNs took 20 to 30 minutes, whereas now, it takes less than 5 minutes.

HPE Alletra Storage has improved our storage performance in terms of IOPS.

Since we have had HPE Alletra Storage, there have been only two tickets. It is the same with Nimble. In eight years, there was only one hard disk error. With storage from other companies, we had more tickets, so it was a good decision to go for HPE Alletra Storage.

The most valuable feature is the integration with vCenter with the HPE multi-storage plugin. That makes it more comfortable to use the storage with just a few clicks. Previously, we had to configure it in vCenter or we had to configure it on Nimble or other storage like MSA. This is the most comfortable feature for us.

One problem we had during the installation of HPE Alletra Storage was the connection to the cloud. Our company does not like cloud connections for storage, but it was necessary. It would be a good thing to start without the GreenLake cloud.

We have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about one year. Previously, we were using Nimble CS3000 and Nimble HF40.

It is very stable.

It is good. We can expand it using shelves.

It is very good. If you open a ticket, you get a response soon. We had a problem during installation, and they were very fast.

Positive

We were using Nimble CS3000 and Nimble HF40. About eight or nine years ago, we were using Open-E. It is an open storage solution. You can install it on ProLiant, but Alletra is much better.

For us, its price is good.

We did not evaluate other solutions. 

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage a ten out of ten because it is a very stable solution, and we can use it very well in our environment. Integration is very good. It is very fast.

We've been able to optimize storage with Alletra.

The data availability guarantee is great. Fortunately, we haven't had to use it, however, it's good to know it's there as an insurance policy.

It's helped us reduce time spent on storage provisioning. It's gone from weeks to days to hours and minutes. The automated tools and intelligence built in make provisioning storage a lot easier. 

It's helped increase storage performance for IOPs. With every new controller family comes more IOPs plus NVMe it's boundless.

We haven't had any issues with the solution so far.

We haven't had any issues with stability. Upgrading is easy. 

The product is easy to scale.

Technical support is excellent. Nimble support is the gold standard. They are always there and the follow-up is great. 

Positive

We've used EMC and 3PAR in the past. Alletra is easy to provision and rock solid. It also has INfoSight analytics. 

Many clients are using a variety of clouds, including AWS, Microsoft, etc. 

It's easy to deploy out of the box.

We help our clients with the implementation.

As a reseller, I can't speak to ROI. 

Licensing is great, even with the additional cost of data cloud services and the cloud console. As customers adapt to that and bring more cloud into their management plane, it's easy to see why many have moved to the cloud base, which is where customers want to be.

We have a lot of customers who are looking at Pure and other storage vendors. The ease of use and ease to provision alongside rock-solid support make Allertra a standout.

I'm a reseller, not a customer.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's easy to set up with a rock-solid performance. InfoSight is a clear differentiator compared to all the other storage companies.