HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

"Very good in-line compression."

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

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

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

"The product provides zero downtime."

"The latency is very low."

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

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

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

"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"They should improve just the support."

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

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

"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."

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

"The networking needs improvement."

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

"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."

"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."

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

"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."

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

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

"The product is very affordable."

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

"The prices are very high."

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

"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 product is costly."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

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

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

"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."