HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

"The latency is very low."

"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."

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

"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."

"The product provides zero downtime."

"The technical support services are good."

"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"

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

"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."

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

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

"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."

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

"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"

"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."

"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."

"They could expand product support to Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Linux platforms."

"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."

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

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

"The solution must be hypervisor-agnostic."

"The product is expensive."

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

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"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."

"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."

"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

"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."

"The product is costly."

"The prices are very high."

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

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

"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."

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

"Its pricing is lower than our previous solution."

"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."

"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."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."