HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

"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."

"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."

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

"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."

"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."

"The solution works well."

"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."

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

"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."

"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."

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

"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 most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."

"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's an all-flash solution. NetApp guarantees 3-to-1 or more than 3-to-1. It has guaranteed performance, like 15K IOPS per node."

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

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

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."

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

"I can tier my data in different storage on the cloud, but I cannot tier the data with HPE Alletra dHCI."

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

"They should improve just the support."

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

"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."

"I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."

"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."

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

"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."

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

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

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

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

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

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

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

"The prices are very high."

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

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

"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."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

"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."

"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."