Dell PowerVault vs HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 comparison

Dell PowerVault vs. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

April 2026

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

4.9

Dell PowerVault provides cost-effective storage, offering stability and reliability, especially beneficial for entry-level and budget-conscious users.

Sentiment score

4.4

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers potential 2X ROI, varying by use case, with strategic cost-focused benefits.

This represents money saved and time saved, because one person has been able to store, view, modify, analyze, stop, and work properly on the administration of their own equipment and the entire storage farm that is under a single console.

Fmontenegro Montenegro

CTO at To Be

Since we already have a very simple environment and a quite resource-optimized environment, I think the major return on investment with Dell PowerVault was above all being on a super stable, reliable platform that gives us the confidence to continue growing using the same platform.

RicardoCardoso

IT Team Leader Latam at MC Bauchemie

I believe Dell PowerVault is the best option on the market at the moment, especially for entry-level and budget solutions.

TheinLin

System Engineer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

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I have seen a return on investment from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

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Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

I have seen a return on investment, which is a little more nuanced, as with HPE GreenLake for File Storage being an operational expense allows me to do a lot more with fewer dollars, spread over the course of the contract.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.4

Dell PowerVault customers generally commend its technical support, valuing quick responses and commitment despite some communication challenges and regional variances.

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 support is praised for responsiveness, problem resolution, and reliability, despite occasional response delays.

Supporting Dell PowerVault is very easy.

Gehad Said

Senior Presales Solutions Engineer ( DELL EMC & VMware) at NTT DATA

The technical support for Dell PowerVault is pretty good and they usually get back to us in a couple of hours with a technical engineer.

RichardLynch

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

When things get more complex and there are interdependencies with other vendors, Dell still struggles a bit, for example, regarding Microsoft products.

Erhan Parlaz

Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group

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Concerning the storage itself, they're pretty damn close to perfect.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I evaluate the customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as excellent so far.

reviewer2730105

Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Normally, with the Nimble systems and with HPE Alletra MPs or HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with Nimble OS, we have not had many support cases in the last years.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.4

Dell PowerVault offers scalable storage solutions for SMEs, though larger firms may face complexities and performance constraints.

Sentiment score

7.4

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers excellent scalability, flexibility, and positive operational impact, effectively meeting performance and capacity needs.

I don't face any issues with security with Dell PowerVault.

Gehad Said

Senior Presales Solutions Engineer ( DELL EMC & VMware) at NTT DATA

Dell PowerVault has features that specifically address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses because it is always very well received with the price-performance ratios that we have repeatedly seen out in the field.

Erhan Parlaz

Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group

It is a system that was chosen specifically for this capability, allowing extension as needed and providing scalability on demand.

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Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 scales with the growing needs of my organization in terms of performance for applications.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

I haven't seen any issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in terms of scaling capacity and performance independently.

reviewer2730105

Video Strategy Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Upgrading from a smaller controller to a more powerful one is straightforward for enhancing speed, or you can extend the network ports.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Dell PowerVault is mostly stable, integrates well, and offers reliable security despite occasional minor issues and active-passive controller drawbacks.

Sentiment score

8.3

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is renowned for its stability, reliability, and uninterrupted performance, receiving high user ratings.

This was especially important given the choice to store video that is extremely critical both from a general point of view and from a legal point of view, where data must be kept and secured.

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Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is stable, performance is acceptable, and has good integration with backup, with interfaces like Fibre Channel and SMB to expose to the client.

Pawel Augustyn

System Advisor at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dell PowerVault has been stable.

RichardLynch

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The experience has no downtimes or crashes, and the performance is good.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

The stability and reliability level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very good.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

In the past three years, I have not had even one escalation call.

reviewer2650254

Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees

Room For Improvement

Dell PowerVault needs improvements in responsiveness, integration, deduplication, pricing, support, cache capacity, and management for complex environments.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 needs faster configuration, portal reliability, unified storage, better metadata, marketplace diversity, and improved cost management.

It would be beneficial for Dell to enhance outreach to new customers directly to prevent resellers from scaring them away with higher pricing.

VasanthKumar4

Associate Vice President - Technical Services Group (TSG) at HGS

Only when environments become more complex, especially in the enterprise area, does Dell PowerVault struggle in the software area, including centralized management.

Erhan Parlaz

Sr. Sales Consultant at Teccle Group

There are two aspects to consider: replication, meaning replicating data from one site to another concerning Dell PowerVault, and another very important area where significant improvement is needed—everything related to expansion rules.

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Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

In a price-sensitive market like India, obtaining an administrator is much more cost-effective than the cloud alternative, which is almost four times as expensive.

reviewer2650254

Head Of IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees

The DSCC portal offers replication information, but it is not available in the integrated GUI.

Manikandan Ramalingam

Storage Architect at DXC Technology

If the customer's requirement is pure NAS, in that environment, I cannot suggest HP solutions.

Kitmeer-Ahmad

Product Manager, Dell Client Solutions at Team Computers

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Setup Cost

Dell PowerVault is an affordable, competitive storage solution, though some users find it costly compared to alternatives.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is competitively priced, stable, cost-effective, and straightforward, with manageable storage and significant software costs.

I don't think it's terribly priced, but Pure Storage is cheaper.

RichardLynch

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Dell PowerVault is fairly within the budget for our operations and for our client's operations.

Damir Beha

Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer at Fonicom

If you use a PowerVault with SSD hard disk, it begins to be rather expensive.

HansThilen

System Technician at Lidingö stad

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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is not so expensive.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was good.

Jim VandeVegt

Technical Integrator at Physicians Mutual Insurance

Regarding pricing, this year I compared it with other vendors, and HPE is still on par with what the other vendors have out there, so I'm comfortable with the pricing.

Warren Owens

Global Senior Manager, Information Technology Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Valuable Features

Dell PowerVault offers budget-friendly, scalable, and reliable storage with seamless integration, ideal for video surveillance and enterprise virtualization.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers centralized, scalable management with AI-driven features, ensuring efficiency, flexibility, and data availability.

We've even used PowerVault series that we intended to use for five years for almost eight years, and it was still working fine, providing good ROI compared to any other brand.

VasanthKumar4

Associate Vice President - Technical Services Group (TSG) at HGS

What differentiates Dell PowerVault from other storage solutions is the performance combined with the ability to meet significant bandwidth consumption needs.

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Moe Infrastructure Data Center at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

This mainly gives us time to react and provides us with peace of mind that if something happens, we can be up and running within a span of approximately 30 minutes.

Damir Beha

Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer at Fonicom

Regarding DR, the RPO and RTOs are very good.

Senior Engineer – Box at MAINT

Regarding the predictive analytics feature of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, you can analyze information over the DSCC, the Data Center Cloud Console, where you can see a lot of information to indicate whether the system has had problems or not.

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IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

The performance level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 impacts our organization's processes by enhancing operational efficiency.

Parth Sharma

Product Engineering Architect at 11:11 Sytems

Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerVault

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Fibre Channel (1st)

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000

Ranking in Enterprise SAN

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Public Cloud Storage Services (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Enterprise SAN category, the mindshare of Dell PowerVault is 15.3%, down from 29.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is 3.2%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise SAN Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell PowerVault	15.3%
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000	3.2%
Other	81.5%

Enterprise SAN

Featured Reviews

Fmontenegro Montenegro

CTO at To Be

Storage has supported long-term CCTV archiving and improves on-premises application performance

I think it would be good regarding how Dell PowerVault could improve to have, in addition to the excellent support service that exists, some training courses, forums, and a training school for using these tools. Many people specialize only in this kind of equipment, and others have no idea how to configure them or how they work and always end up depending on people who have spent a long time working with these systems and know how to handle them more because of experience than because of information that can be easily obtained about using this equipment. Everything regarding additional aspects that could be improved in Dell PowerVault has already been mentioned.

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Kitmeer-Ahmad

Product Manager, Dell Client Solutions at Team Computers

Hybrid storage for AI and virtualization has boosted performance and simplified VM management

I think there are some issues to enhance in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. In HP, there is no NAS as of now. Earlier, there was a NAS, but they stopped the unified boxes, creating challenges with customers. For enterprise customers, it is better to keep the environment separate, but for SMB customers, they should introduce unified boxes so that customers can easily use SAN/NAS functionality. That function is not available in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. It is available in Dell PowerStore and NetApp. If the customer's requirement is pure NAS, in that environment, I cannot suggest HP solutions. If the customer asks for a unified box in an RFP, I have to go to alternative OEMs like NetApp. As I mentioned, NetApp is known for the unified feature. In HP, there is no option to provide a unified box. If the requirement is for object storage or pure SAN, HP will best fit that environment. In NetApp, there are limitations on the SMB customer side due to the need for iSCSI switches between servers and storage. In contrast, with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, I can connect directly to the switches.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Government

Media Company

11%

University

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerVault?

I think the price, implementation cost, and licensing of Dell PowerVault is reasonable. Considering the resources it delivers, the security, and the reliability the platform gives us, all the costs...

What needs improvement with Dell PowerVault?

I do not see the option for scheduled snapshots in Dell PowerVault because I did not find the information. However, I do use the snapshot option on Dell PowerVault to protect against cyber-attacks....

What is your primary use case for Dell PowerVault?

I work with Dell PowerStore, PowerEdge, and PowerVault, but not PowerProtect. I have been dealing with Dell PowerVault for one year. I use Dell PowerVault for backup storage, as this is the major u...

What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers two types of storage solutions. One is MPX, which is object-based storage, and another one is MP B10000. B stands for block storage, and X is for object-based s...

What advice do you have for others considering HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?

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Also Known As

PowerVault

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage

Overview

Dell PowerVault offers affordable, scalable, and user-friendly data management, making it a suitable choice for businesses needing reliable video surveillance storage due to its high performance and strong security features.

Dell PowerVault is tailored for small to mid-range applications, providing robust security and stability with seamless compatibility across major platforms. Known for its performance and bandwidth handling, it is ideal for video surveillance storage, virtualization, and backup solutions. The platform features simple deployment with bi-directional asynchronous replication, an HTML5 interface, data deduplication, and RAID. While lacking some real-time feedback and integration capabilities into unified storage, Dell PowerVault delivers significant operational efficiency and value.

What features define Dell PowerVault?

Scalability: Easily manages growing data storage needs, supporting various business sizes.
Ease of Use: Simplifies deployment and administration with a user-friendly HTML5 interface.
Performance: Handles high bandwidth applications, ideal for video surveillance.
Data Deduplication: Minimizes storage requirements by efficiently managing data redundancy.
RAID Systems: Enhances data protection and system reliability.

What benefits should users expect?

Operational Efficiency: Streamlines data management for improved productivity.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers significant value despite high initial pricing compared to competitors.
Security: Provides robust features for enhanced data protection.
Compatibility: Smooth integration with major platforms ensures versatile use cases.

Implemented widely in industries for virtualization, ERP applications, video surveillance, and secure out-of-band backups, Dell PowerVault supports businesses with its effective data replication and compliance capabilities. Its scalable nature and ease of management make it suitable for production databases and virtualized systems.

Dell Technologies

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, formerly HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, is a flexible solution known for central management and scalability, ensuring improved uptime and seamless system integration.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 offers an intuitive interface, AI-driven predictive analytics, and the ability to scale capacity and performance independently. It provides a pay-as-you-go model for simplified management and reduces operational expenses and downtime. The solution is characterized by high availability, strong support, and a simplified disaster recovery process. Intent-based and self-provisioning features streamline storage management. Despite its strengths, enhancements in configuration speed, portal updates, and connectivity are needed. Users request improved data classification, vendor marketplace details, a deeper GreenLake integration, and enhanced sustainability services.

What are the key features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000?

Central Management: Streamlines control across storage resources.
Scalability: Independent scaling of capacity and performance.
AI-driven Predictive Analytics: Anticipates and resolves issues proactively.
High Availability: Ensures continuous operation and minimal downtime.
Intent-based Provisioning: Simplifies storage allocation with minimal input.

How does HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 benefit users?

Cost Efficiency: Pay-as-you-go model reduces expenditure.
Improved Uptime: High reliability minimizes operational interruptions.
Simplified Management: Easy-to-use interface and self-provisioning streamline processes.
Reduced Downtime: Proactive analytics and robust disaster recovery enhance system resilience.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is primarily used for virtualization in VMware and Hyper-V environments, addressing storage provisioning, database hosting, and SAP data requirements. It supports video-on-demand infrastructure and containerized applications, facilitating disaster recovery and data backup solutions. Many users integrate it with VMware infrastructures, transitioning from Nimble systems to meet storage demand.

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Sample Customers

Dayco, FAW Foundry, University of Cambridge, Finder, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co.

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