HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 95% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

HPE Alletra dHCI

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95% willing to recommend

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88% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Alletra dHCI

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

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HCI (9th)

NetApp HCI [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Thomas Watterott

IT Consultant at Autonubil System GmbH

Synchronous replication and strong support enhance storage and data protection

The most valuable features of HPE Alletra dHCI are the synchronous replication, the easy extension for more storage, and its strong support. Data protection is very good, offering features such as virtual lock for snapshots, multi-factor authentication, and encryption for volumes. The solution handles workload variability very well without any performance issues even for demanding applications like SAP, SQL, and Citrix.

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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Crashed continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support - NETAPP FIXED the problems in 2022

Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.

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

Pros

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."

"HPE Alletra dHCI was good because we could have the vVols, which we are using for our production server, with the snapshots."

"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."

"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."

"The solution works well."

"It's helpful as you stand on high-end storage. Alletra offers up to 99% availability, providing excellent stability. You also get the benefits of an HCI solution with a template and upgradability at any time."

"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."

"The latency is very low."

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"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."

"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."

"When you are doing lifecycles for your equipment, you can just swap out pieces of equipment. We used to do one big iron to another big iron, and that's a major migration hassle. Whereas, with this environment, you can go with small nodes, one at a time, and do a refresh."

"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."

"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."

"We like SnapMirror and we've been using it for many years. We also like the object storage tools, as well as cloud sync for customers wanting to integrate between the cloud and local."

"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."

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Cons

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"The deployment of a new server could be improved."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's website does not open properly or work consistently."

"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."

"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."

"The implementation process was problematic due to firmware incompatibilities and lengthy support intervention."

"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."

"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."

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"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."

"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."

"I would like to see the implementation process improved."

"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."

"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."

"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."

"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."

"The networking needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is much cheaper than the competition and has value proposition. Customers can see an ROI in three months. There are no additional costs, and VMware licenses can be reutilized."

"With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more."

"I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."

"The product is costly."

"The price of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is expensive."

"The product is very affordable."

"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."

"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."

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"This solution saved our organization time (35 percent) and money. We have a hefty group of developers, and if you multiply that by 30 to 35 percent, that is quite a bit of money."

"All the licenses are included when you buy the program."

"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

"You still have to pay for the licensing for VMware and Red Hat licenses separately. It's not all inclusive at this point."

"Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."

"Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."

"There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems."

"Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

Pricing is rated at six, which is normal. The price is appropriate for the capabilities and features that the customers receive.

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What needs improvement with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

I would like the HPE Alletra dHCI to provide options to install products separately. When extending or when servers are already present, normal Alletra systems are more suitable. dHCI projects ofte...

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What is your primary use case for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

Our customers' usual use cases for HPE Alletra dHCI ( /products/hpe-alletra-dhci-reviews ) are the same as with the Nimble ( /products/nimble-32125-reviews ) systems: virtualization, storage for bu...

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Overview

HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.

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NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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