HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."

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

"The solution works well."

"The best functions or features of HPE Alletra dHCI that I have found most valuable are its easy management and simplicity."

"The integration of AI tools for predictive analysis sets it apart from competitors."

"The product provides zero downtime."

"The most valuable feature of HPE Alletra dHCI is the one-click upgrade function, which allows all drivers and services to be downloaded to all servers easily."

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

"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."

"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."

"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."

"The most valuable feature is the convergence."

"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."

"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"

"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."

"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."

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

"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."

"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."

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

"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."

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

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

"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."

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

"The product needs better support for installing the operating system on the machine."

"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."

"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."

"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."

"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."

"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."

"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

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

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

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

"The product licensing costs vary depending on whether VMware or other solutions are used."

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

"The product is very affordable."

"Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."

"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."

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

"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."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

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

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