HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 95% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

HPE Alletra dHCI

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95% willing to recommend

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88% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Alletra dHCI

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

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NetApp HCI [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

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Featured Reviews

Mohamed-Mousa

IT Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees

Modern infrastructure has supported critical business services and delivers strong data protection

To be honest, I did not make any changes in Nimble, and the same applies to StoreOnce. The system is built and ready-made. It was already built before we received it, but overall, everything is clear and direct, and there is nothing complex, so I do not need to do a deep dive in the system to resolve or change anything. I do not use HPE Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI intelligent automation. I do not use intelligent data services in managing my data infrastructure. I have not actually used additional functionality for Nimble Storage HPE Alletra dHCI right now, but I think this feature is very useful, especially AI. AI is involved in any software now, and I do not use it in my system, but I think it's very useful.

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Massimiliano Bartolozzi

Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.

Crashed continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support - NETAPP FIXED the problems in 2022

Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was 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 crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"The product provides zero downtime."

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

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

"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the convergence."

"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."

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Cons

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

"I would rate technical support from HPE as two out of ten."

"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."

"I would like the HPE Alletra dHCI to provide options to install products separately."

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

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

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

"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."

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"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."

"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."

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

"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."

"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The product is costly."

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

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

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

"The prices are very high."

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

"The product is very affordable."

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

"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 pricing is lower than our previous solution."

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

"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."

"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."

"The licensing fees are renewed annually."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Marketing Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	19

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HPE Nimble Storage dHCI

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Overview

HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.

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NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

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American Showa, Children's Mercy, Coca-Cola, Consultel Cloud, Evangelische Landeskirche in Wurttemberg, Imperva, Surface Mount Technology

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