HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Reviews

My use case is mainly for virtualization. Most of the workloads are virtualization. They're running virtual machines on there. Now I'm also deploying it for containerized applications. I also have a small Kubernetes stack storing its data.

I am a long-time HPE storage user and what I like the most is that they picked the best of both worlds and merged them together in one platform. 

I can start small. I can scale up. I can scale out. I can scale the capacity independently of the performance. 

The most important feature is that it's easy to manage. It has integrations with my application and with my software stack.

It's so easy. We have the full life cycle management doing updates, and it's just a button, so it makes life easier. 

The ease of management has the biggest impact. That directly impacts my daily life. With easier management with one console, the application team can use the same tool. It's much more efficient. The communication, the enablement, it goes much faster, and we are much more efficient.

The evolution over the last year has been good. They are doing a great job and have a good roadmap. 

We've saved a lot of time. However, how much time saved would depend on the number of actions or how you are measuring.

It improved your storage performance in iOS due to the technology that they're using and the NVMe Storage.

Today I get a better deduplication level compared to the previous generations. That means the price per gigabyte or terabyte is lower for me. 

It's still a block environment. The file storage is too big. If they can lower that so I can store files and objects on the same device, that would be great.

You need two different boxes for block and file storage. They aren't using the same hardware. It's the same hardware, yet not a compiled solution. I'd like one box in my data center. 

I see some features from InfoSight in the GreenLake management platform. However, it's not on par yet.

I've been using the solution for about a year now. 

HPE guarantees 100% availability. As long as I have electricity, it is stable. I've had no downtime. I've done updates and everything is a click of a button and nothing fell offline during the update. I've had no complaints so far.

The solution is easy to scale up and out. 

I haven't had to call customer service yet. That's a good thing. Most of the time, I could figure it out myself. If it is on par with my previous generation Ultra and Nimble Arrays then I don't expect to have a major issue with them.

The solution is a CAPEX for me. I'm not using it as a service with monthly or yearly billing. It is very competitively priced compared to my previous solutions. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

I would recommend the solution to others. It's easy to install, set up, configure, and maintain. It makes my life easier. 

It is the next-gen for our Primera storage. We are running normal VMware workloads on this Block Storage.

The benefits have been in terms of high performance and scalability. We are running workloads for hospitals, pharmacies, general practitioners, and mental care. They are on 24/7, so our data center needs that high availability for our customers.

HPE GreenLake For Block Storage provides a cloud-like experience but on-prem for managing our global block storage environment. It is an online solution. It is almost the same as what we did with the local GUI that we had for the former storage.

The 100% data availability guarantee provided by GreenLake For Block Storage is the most important. We are running hospital data loads in our data center. The data must always be there.

HPE GreenLake For Block Storage enables us to meet any recovery-point objective (RPO) and recovery‑time objective (RTO) strategy. We are using the local snapshots together with our Veeam solution.

HPE GreenLake For Block Storage has helped reduce our operational expenses, but I do not have the metrics. 

The uptime, the guarantee from HPE, and NVMe Storage are valuable.

I do not have any areas for improvement. We are experimenting with Alletra MP. In the next couple of years, we will be migrating our primary systems to Alletra MP, so I have no need for new features at the moment.

We have been using HPE GreenLake for Block Storage for two months in our data center.

As far as we go, it has been very stable and well-performing.

We have not scaled it yet. Its scalability capacity should be great. We are going to find that out. We hope to scale a lot in the next couple of months. We started small, and we are growing fast.

It is good.

We were using HPE Primera Storage. HPE GreenLake For Block Storage is the new generation, and that was the main reason to switch.

It was very easy and very nice.

It was implemented by HPE. We had no problems.

We have seen an ROI.

Its price seems okay for us. It is what we expect for this kind of storage.

We did not evaluate other options. We are an HPE customer, and we plan to stay the same.

I would recommend buying this solution. I would rate HPE GreenLake for Block Storage a ten out of ten. It is a good solution, and we hope to get more of it.

I have an account on HPE GreenLake. I log in. I create a company profile/a customer profile. From there, I adapt switches and access points to manage them centrally on this GreenLake portal.

The feature I like is that I can create a template and apply it to multiple switches. I don't have to do the same task on every switch, and the same goes for access points. 

It's central management, with the features that come with central management.

So, instead of having to configure five switches from scratch, they inherit the default config when adapted to the portal. That's a good thing.

As with every central management solution, you don't have to do the same thing over and over on each device. You can do it once and apply it to many devices. That's what central management is about.

My main concern is that changes made on the devices take a long time to configure and show their status. It's very inconvenient how long this takes. For example, if I configure five switches at a time. They all come with the same default name, so I have to identify them somehow. I select the first switch, change its name, and save the configuration. But it still has the same default name. So, I'm having a hard time figuring out what configuration has been implemented... Is it configured? Why is it not shown in the portal?

I'm disappointed with the portal. 

The debugging of devices could use improvement. Connection problems on devices as well. Better logging within GreenLake to understand what's happening with devices—why something isn't working, those kinds of things.

I have been familiar with this product for six months now. 

From my limited experience, I would rate it a nine out of ten. I haven't had any problems with its reliability and stability yet.

We have around 20 switches and maybe 30 to 40 access points. We are on our way to implement this. So far, the scalability is fine. 

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.

We used just the command-line interface (CLI).

It was our partner that suggested GreenLake, so we switched.

I would rate my experience with the initial setup a five out of ten, with one being difficult and ten being easy. 

HPE GreenLake is a cloud-based solution.

I understand it is a fairly new solution, and I'm hoping for improvements. Until then, I cannot recommend it.

Overall, I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.