HPE Alletra dHCI vs NetApp HCI [EOL] comparison

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

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."

"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"

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

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."

"The solution works well."

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

"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."

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

"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 is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."

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

"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."

"HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."

"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'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."

"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."

"The initial setup is a little bit complicated."

"The product does not support file services."

"Lacking integration to the cloud."

"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."

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

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

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."

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

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

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

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

"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."

"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."

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

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

"The cost of the licensing is reasonable."

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

"The product is very affordable."

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

"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."

"The prices are very high."

"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 pricing is lower than our previous solution."

"The price of the solution is okay but could improve."

"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."

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

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

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