HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

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

"The product provides zero downtime."

"HPE Alletra dHCI is very comfortable with high performance and quick installation."

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

"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."

"So far, the solution's performance is very good."

"It is easier to manage compared to the other vendors."

"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."

"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."

"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"

"The ease of deployment is a positive feature that allows us to scale easily."

"The most valuable feature is the convergence."

"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."

"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."

"The most valuables features of it are the deduplication and the compaction because the ratios are much better than what we normally get on our FAS storage."

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

"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."

"Companies in small countries face problems with spare parts."

"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."

"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."

"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."

"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."

"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."

"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."

"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."

"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."

"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."

"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."

"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."

"Its stability is 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 crash."

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

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

"The product is costly."

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

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

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

"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."

"The prices are very high."

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

"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."

"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 licensing fees are renewed annually."

"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."

"Its price is aligned with the market. In addition to the standard licensing fees, there is an integrator cost."

"Its price is comparable to the competitors in the market."

"This solution reduced our maintenance costs. We were going to have to pay one to two million dollars to put in compute nodes. We are avoiding those costs."