HPE Alletra Storage vs NetApp NVMe AFF A800 comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.1, while NetApp is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 9.3% mindshare in AFS, compared to NetApp’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 and HPE Alletra Storage compete in the high-performance storage solutions category. HPE Alletra Storage holds an edge due to its combination of superior features and pricing, making it more highly favored for overall value despite higher costs.

Features: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 offers high-speed and low-latency performance, ideal for users needing impactful data handling. Key features include impressive speed, performance, and consistency. HPE Alletra Storage is recognized for its scalability, AI-driven management tools, and dynamic operation capabilities. Users value its intelligent, efficient management.

Room for Improvement: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 requires enhancements in firmware update processes, reporting tools, and UI experience. HPE Alletra Storage users look for improvements in software bug fixes, user configuration simplicity, and quick support response, aiming to reduce operational complexity for better user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is praised for easy deployment and reliable customer service, ensuring smooth setup experiences. HPE Alletra Storage also offers straightforward deployment. However, it sometimes faces criticism regarding the speed of its support services.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp NVMe AFF A800 has high setup costs, but users trust its long-term value and ROI. HPE Alletra Storage, although initially priced high, provides competitive pricing with excellent ROI, aligning well with overall value expectations.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE Alletra Storage vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 Report (Updated: December 2025).

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HPE Alletra Storage vs. NetApp NVMe AFF A800

December 2025

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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

1.0

Organizations reduced costs and improved performance with Pure FlashArray X NVMe, achieving quick ROI and efficient resource management.

Sentiment score

5.7

Many organizations found HPE Alletra Storage cost-effective, easy to manage, reliable, and beneficial for efficiency and performance improvements.

Sentiment score

4.8

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is cost-effective, offering ROI in 18 months, but requires strategic use in academic settings.

If you wait more than seven years to buy another one, you get a return on your investment.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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For anyone new to the company, it is very easy to understand what is going on, how to manage, how to get access and know what it is doing.

Fernando Hortal

CTO & Presales Manager at Pleiades Tecnologia

Uptime is ROI.

reviewer2506134

Network System Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

With Alletra, it downloads the software, and you just hit the button, and go.

Lisa Whalen

System Engineer at University of Nebraska

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe's technical support is praised for responsiveness, despite occasional follow-up issues, earning high customer satisfaction.

Sentiment score

6.5

HPE Alletra Storage support is highly rated for responsive, skilled service, quick resolutions, and effective problem-solving, especially Nimble support.

Sentiment score

6.5

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 customer service is praised for professionalism, effective problem resolution, and meeting SLA across time zones.

Customers always have their issues resolved promptly.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

Technical support is good at least through vendors, not directly with the principal.

Shakeel Qureshi

Infrastructure Specialis at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

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We have four-hour support, and 99% of our issues are resolved within that timeframe.

Jacob Jorgensen

System Administrator at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Last week, a ticket that needed to be solved in six hours took one week.

Julio Cesar Bortolotti

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

As soon as we have a problem, we open a ticket with them, and they immediately get back to us well within the four hour SLA that we have with them.

Jim Welch

Infrastructure Architect at Enloe Medical Center, Inc.

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They don't exceed the predicted SLA times.

Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers scalable storage with low latency, easy upgrades, though capacity customization and high costs are noted.

Sentiment score

7.0

HPE Alletra Storage offers efficient scalability, enabling easy expansions with minimal downtime, despite some limitations in certain models.

Sentiment score

6.6

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 offers high scalability with minimal effort, despite challenges choosing between on-premises and cloud deployments.

It is highly scalable.

Joerg Utesch

Sales Director at systemzwo group

It hasn't broken down anytime in the last six to seven years, despite hurricanes, earthquakes, and power outages.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

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We've had zero downtime.

reviewer2505762

Manager, Information Technology, Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Alletra provides modular, non-disruptive scale-up and scale-out.

reviewer7142983

Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

If we do grow beyond what the appliance already has, we know that service will take care of it and grow the appliance for us without needing to forklift upgrade.

reviewer2729496

Operations Technician at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

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We already had some challenges with escalating the volumes and adding more cabinets, but we discovered it is possible.

Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Pure Storage offers exceptional stability and reliability with outstanding support, consistently achieving high user ratings for performance and service.

Sentiment score

7.9

HPE Alletra Storage is recognized for high uptime, reliability, and performance, with some concerns about future stability.

Sentiment score

7.7

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is highly stable and reliable, receiving praise for uptime, swift support, and data integrity features.

I would rate the stability of the product at seven out of ten.

Gary Cheung

Project Manager at a government with 11-50 employees

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The solution is stable and rock-solid.

Jim Welch

Infrastructure Architect at Enloe Medical Center, Inc.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

reviewer2729523

Manager, Information Technology at a agriculture with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have experienced no issues yet, so I assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage as 100%.

reviewer2729526

Head of Information Technology at a media company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Pure FlashArray X requires cost-effective improvements in UI, integration, cloud features, multitenancy, analytics, backup, AI, and scalability.

HPE Alletra users seek NVMe integration, improved setup, intuitive management, AI capabilities, and better compatibility with protocols and platforms.

The NetApp NVMe AFF A800 needs improvements in cost, setup, support, stability, speed, UI, cloud integration, and connectivity.

We would appreciate a built-in transparent failover in the next release to eliminate the need for a separate metro cluster.

Joerg Utesch

Sales Director at systemzwo group

One way to improve the product is to add an operational assistant that doesn't depend on VMware.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

I would like to see some AI features that would allow arrays to intelligently identify threats or unusual behavior in the data pattern and give an alert.

Santhosh Sridhara

Cloud Architect at DXC Technology

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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.

reviewer2465262

Senior Director, Information Technology at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

They would like to have one tool that can take them everywhere. There should be a single pane of glass.

reviewer2505771

Sr. Storage and Virtualization Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Most importantly, there is going to be the flexibility of moving compute and storage on Alletra MP.

Andre Bellotti

Solution Architect at CBTS

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The dashboard is not user-friendly.

Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

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Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers see Pure FlashArray X NVMe as a justified premium investment due to performance and comprehensive licensing.

HPE Alletra Storage pricing is competitive, with varying opinions on cost, licensing complexity, and alignment with consumption-based models.

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is seen as high-priced yet offers enterprise value with manageable costs and standard annual payments.

While the prices may be higher than those of other vendors, we see it as a market leader with benefits.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

The support can be a bit pricey, but the solution is more cost-effective than anything else out there.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

I would rate the solution as an eight out of ten in terms of costliness.

Joerg Utesch

Sales Director at systemzwo group

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For future use, we bill based on device consumption rather than the traditional datacenter model.

Yosef Emiru

System Engineer at Kenera International Trading PLC

The predictability of having that one-time cost is everything for the data center.

reviewer2465262

Senior Director, Information Technology at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

It's expensive.

reviewer2506134

Network System Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

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The solution is affordable.

Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

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Valuable Features

Pure FlashArray X NVMe offers exceptional performance, reliability, scalability, and seamless VMware integration, enhancing workload efficiency and user experience.

HPE Alletra Storage offers easy management, fast deployment, cost savings, VMware integration, predictive analysis, and proactive support for efficient operations.

NetApp NVMe AFF A800 excels in performance, stability, low latency, and efficient multi-application handling with enhanced encryption and space management.

Its data compression feature is the best that we have ever seen.

Eugene Hemphill

Sales Manager at Multicomputos PR

The standout features for us in Pure FlashArray X NVMe are its robust DDoS protection, seamless transparent failover, and failback capabilities ensuring high availability.

Joerg Utesch

Sales Director at systemzwo group

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed.

Enes SUZER

Manager, System Infrastructure & Security at Organik Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S.

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With NVMe drives, a single drive can provide up to thirty thousand IOPS.

SushilKumar4

Solution architect at Aeris

The guarantee of data availability is very important to us. Data runs everything.

reviewer2505762

Manager, Information Technology, Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The guarantee of data available to our organization is important. We're a manufacturing company. If our systems go down, we lose dollars every minute that system's offline.

Jacob Jorgensen

System Administrator at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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It helps prevent being hacked, and so far we don't have any issues. We can do the encryption of the data.

Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

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Categories and Ranking

Pure FlashArray X NVMe

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the All-Flash Storage category, the mindshare of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage is 9.3%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Alletra Storage	9.3%
Pure FlashArray X NVMe	1.2%
NetApp NVMe AFF A800	0.8%
Other	88.7%

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Featured Reviews

Jaehoon Oh

Chief Technology Officer at Lambda256

Supports efficient storage management through volume snapshots and offers reliable non-disruptive upgrades

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could be enhanced. I can see the performance statistics in the Pure Storage console, but it does not show the performance by 4K byte unit. It displays IOPS and bandwidth, but IOPS is about real use, and I want to know how many IOPS are currently running in 4K byte units. I cannot see that IOPS because most storage systems report their performance by 4K byte unit. I want to see Pure Storage performance by 4K byte unit to compare with other storage or other internal NVMe SSD.

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Toby Lutter

Systems Specialist at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Data management operations are streamlined with impressive metrics and responsive support

Improving HPE Alletra Storage is challenging to answer because there are several different metrics to consider. From a performance perspective, the improvements and large jumps are fantastic as is. From a deployment perspective, I was a big fan of the on-premise deployment model and then connecting it afterward to GreenLake. Now that's being sunsetted. From a sensor and metric standpoint, there is just enough data without getting useless metrics, where you become blind to what it provides. The HPE Storage Technical Assistance Center is still probably the best out of all the storage vendors. It's difficult to improve upon being able to call in and get assistance almost instantly.

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Helder-Valente

IT Director at affidea

Has improved data efficiency and application performance while supporting encryption and fast access to imaging workloads

We use it quite extensively because with this we have more space and the information can be read without wasting time. We are satisfied with this. The performance is quite good. We don't have any issues regarding the applications that use fat clients. It helps prevent being hacked, and so far we don't have any issues. We can do the encryption of the data. The solution performs quite well. It helps us maintain our systems. Since we have many applications that use images for streaming, it works exceptionally well. We don't have any issues, and this helps us with the service we provide to the hospital.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	25
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

The price of Pure FlashArray X NVMe is very expensive, though I do not know the actual price because I am using the E...

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What needs improvement with Pure FlashArray X NVMe?

I have no specific improvements to suggest for Pure FlashArray X NVMe at this time. The performance statistics could ...

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What do you like most about HPE Alletra?

It offers rich features and high speed for transferring data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Alletra?

The cost overall depends on the competition; normally, the price is competitive for HPE Alletra 5000. However, for th...

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What needs improvement with HPE Alletra?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp NVMe AFF A800?

The solution is affordable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp NVMe AFF A800?

For NVMe, the reporting and consolidation dashboard could be improved. The dashboard is not user-friendly. It should ...

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What is your primary use case for NetApp NVMe AFF A800?

We continue with NetApp NVMe AFF A800. We are the client. It is used for storage and backup. Regarding equipment mode...

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Also Known As

Pure FlashArray//X NVMe, Pure FlashArray//X, FlashArray//X

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Overview

Pure Storage FlashArray//X is the world’s first enterprise-class, all-NVMe flash storage array. It represents a new class of storage – shared accelerated storage, which is a term coined by Gartner – that delivers major breakthroughs in performance, simplicity, and consolidation.

Pure Storage

HPE Alletra Storage provides on-premises cloud-like operations, delivering high-performance NVMe drives, VMware integration, data deduplication, and compression. It's known for simplicity, management ease, and capacity efficiency.

HPE Alletra Storage stands out for its scalability and comprehensive features, benefiting diverse workloads and scenarios. Users report faster IOPS, reduced provisioning time, and fewer support tickets. Its guarantee of data availability and strong support network ensure high operational reliability and cost-efficiency. However, it could improve NVMe compatibility, setup, and connectivity. Enhancing intuitive design and monitoring capabilities while reducing internet dependency and refining integration with existing software would increase user satisfaction. Cost efficiency and streamlined licensing are ongoing concerns, with demands for file-based storage, better scalability, and customizability improvements.

What are the key features of HPE Alletra Storage?

Cloud-like Operations: Provides on-premises cloud-like experiences.
High-Performance NVMe: Utilizes NVMe drives for enhanced speed.
VMware Integration: Seamlessly integrates with VMware environments.
Data Deduplication: Efficiently reduces data redundancy.
Compression: Optimizes storage capacity through compression.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated in reviews?

Reliability: High data availability guarantee and strong support network.
Scalability: Benefits workloads with flexible scaling options.
Speed: Reports of faster IOPS and reduced provisioning time.
Efficiency: Fewer support tickets and efficient resource management.
Cost-Effectiveness: Operational reliability leads to lower costs.

HPE Alletra Storage is widely used in virtualization, VMware, and data center block storage, particularly in financial and healthcare sectors. Organizations utilize it for VM storage, cloud infrastructure, and databases. It supports VDI, hyper-converged infrastructure, and high-performance computing. Businesses leverage its capabilities for data backup, compression, and deduplication, integrating seamlessly with existing environments to meet enterprise storage needs with high throughput and low-latency performance.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Your data is a gold mine. Get the most out of it - faster - with AFF A800. Designed for NVMe media, further accelerated with NVMe/FC connectivity to the host, AFF A800 all-flash systems deliver an incredible sub-200 microsecond latency. Providing more than 11.4M IOPS and 300GB/s throughput in a single cluster, AFF A800 redefines the limit of what’s possible with artificial intelligence and deep learning.

NetApp

Sample Customers

Fremont Bank, Judson ISD, The Nielsen Company

Accenture, Aetna, AIG, Airbus, Allianz, American Express, ATT, Bank of America, Barclays, BASF, Bayer, Berkshire Hathaway, Boeing, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Comcast, Credit Suisse, Dell, Deutsche Bank, ExxonMobil, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Google, HSBC, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Kroger, L'Oreal, Merck

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