HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Reviews

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is used for virtualization and acts as the data store for virtualization. It also enables line of business or database administrators to self-provision storage and helps reduce time for storage provisioning and management.

The biggest advantage as a reseller of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is that it's an HP product that usually uses the same server, making troubleshooting easier with a single vendor. Its performance is satisfactory.

The specific capability to enable snapshots in this model helps protect against ransomware through snap lock.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 saves time in storage management and is easy to manage because it's connected to the common HP cloud, enabling cloud management.

There is the negative impact of the high price for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, which is costly considering economy-related price increases.

The future feature desired is the addition of multi-protocol capabilities to handle block, file, and object storage in one unit, enhancing customer utility.

I began using this type of solution in 2012 with the 3PAR model.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is stable.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 provides the ability to scale capacity and performance independently because it is very easy to scale capacity. However, performance requires careful design and planning to match workload demands.

Typically, when moving to a workload with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, it operates well, but moving back can be difficult due to challenges in data migration.

I can give support from HP a rating of eight.

Before they started with the B model, we used 3PAR. We stopped using that one as well. Then we transitioned to the Primera and now have started with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

Installing HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is simple.

I am now a reseller of HP.

I see value for money in HPE Alletra Storage. There is a return on investment.

Many products are more expensive than HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

HPE has an all-layer product. Sometimes it is more competitive because we can provide the server, network, and storage in the same brand, unlike Hitachi, which focuses only on storage.

I typically see customers use prime clouds like AWS, GCP, Huawei, and Alibaba.

I have never purchased HP products from AWS Marketplace.

AI predictive analytics and performance reporting are most common now. Utilizing AI insights can greatly increase efficiency.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is efficient with electricity, and when used for the long term, it becomes sustainable.

The 100% data availability guarantee is crucial now to prevent ransomware.

AI predictive analytics and performance reporting are integral now. Every product utilizes AI, making it necessary for solutions HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

If we get good insight from AI, it can improve efficiency by approximately 40% or 30%.

This depends on bandwidth, but nearly zero RPO and RTO can be achieved.

I rate this review a nine overall.

For my use cases with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, I am trying to replace the existing 3PAR, so a primary use case would be to configure it as block storage for application servers and other enterprise-class applications. I configure it as block storage and provide the space, which is the current use case for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

Apart from this, I do not have any other use cases yet.

For my one year of experience with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, one positive aspect is that it is very similar to the 3PAR array, which means I am already familiar with all the commands and functionalities. It is not a brand new model that requires me to learn everything from scratch; it feels almost like the latest 3PAR model, and it includes a cloud portal through which I can manage multiple arrays from the internet without needing to log into each individual array for allocation or other tasks.

Regarding the time saved on storage management with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, it has significantly reduced my time because previously, I needed to log into each storage for allocations, but now I have a central console that allows me to access all storage systems without logging in separately. If I calculate the time saved in percentage terms, it has reduced by around 30%.

One area that has potential for improvement is the replication side, as Alletra Direct GUI does not provide options to view replication details. While the DSCC portal offers this information, it is not available in the integrated GUI.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for the last one year.

I do not see any glitches, bugs, or hardware problems with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000; everything has been functioning well over the past year without any required downtime.

I believe HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is a scalable tool, though there are some limitations on how much I can extend capacity. However, for the projects I have worked on, it has met my requirements thus far in terms of capacity.

Technical support from HP is excellent, as I can open cases directly through the portal or by calling in, which has been a problem-free experience. From my perspective, I would rate the support at nine out of ten points.

Positive

I have not worked with any other storage products similar to HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 from other vendors.

My experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is straightforward, with no complexity involved.

I am working for a client as a customer, and I am a service provider, not just a partner of HP.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables line-of-business users and database administrators to self-provision storage easily. The solution definitely helps to reduce the time required for storage provisioning and management. The reduction in time for storage provisioning and management is also around 30%.

Regarding scalability and its impact on operations and storage costs, there is a dual-controller model in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, allowing me to touch one loop at a time without any impact. HP claims that upgrades can be done online without downtime. Currently, I do not see any area for improvement in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, as I believe it is a good product without any bugs or problems.

Regarding disaster recovery, I do have flexible options for the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). This flexibility is important because it allows for easy configurations, and I can set up replication between arrays or make other adjustments quickly through the cloud portal, enhancing efficiency.

Regarding my sustainability goals, HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 supports these goals effectively. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 makes achieving sustainability goals possible because it is compact compared to the 3PAR, eliminating the need for a complete 4U rack, and it also enables deduplication and compression, reducing power and cooling needs, as well as space in the rack.

I would rate this solution nine out of ten points.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is primarily used for managing data storage needs. The usual use cases involve all storage being generally used for the storage of computing operations and data that is required for a process. The host provides the capacity to host the application that we run on the storage. HPE Alletra Storage is used for many purposes.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 that I prefer most include its performance. These features have benefited my organization by meeting our capacity requirements. If you are growing and your data and capacity are growing, that definitely helps to provide the capacity while adding the disk shelf or a different controller plus disk shelf. The performance level of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 impacts our organization's processes by enhancing operational efficiency.

The main point for choosing HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 over the vendors we compared it with is the costing, which is much lower compared to the others. Currently, I believe HPE Alletra is giving good performance, and reliability totally depends on how many hardware failures we are getting. It could be a good solution, but the performance and reliability depend on how the hardware is sustained for a longer duration, including the controllers and everything.

I have never used the feature of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 to move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and back.

I have been working with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for about six months.

I have never been in a situation where we tried to scale HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. Currently, every storage vendor in the market is very scalable. You can scale in or scale out at any time without interruptions. I believe HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 will help in a similar way, but I have never dealt with the situation where I needed to scale the storage.

We often reach out to the technical support team of HPE. My experiences with them have been quite flexible, and their response was good because every company and vendor is working on some SLA parts. According to the priority of the ticket, we get the response and solutions when we are facing any issues, so it is quite good. I would rate the technical support from HPE about eight to nine, which would be a great solution.

Positive

Before using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, I worked with many other technologies for the same use cases. We actually worked on many technologies and vendors like EMC, which is Dell now, IBM, NetApp, and some others that are the market leaders we already worked with apart from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

I have never been a part of the initial setup and deployment of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. The deployment was done by the HPE team, and we got the handover storage after configuration. We do implement things like host mapping and everything.

The decision to switch to HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is completely a business decision about what we are trying to achieve within a lower cost.

I am not sure about the pricing of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 because I never dealt with the pricing part. I am not aware of whether we purchased HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 via AWS Marketplace or any other marketplace because the purchasing team is different.

Managing and monitoring our global block storage environment from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000's single cloud console is perfectly fine, although I have never seen this feature in practice. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables line of business or database admins to self-provision storage.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is on-premises in our organization and we use it as an on-premises device.

I believe we can achieve the targeted RPO and RTO with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. The flexibility of RPO and RTO with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is important because it gives you confidence and customer satisfaction when providing a certain limit of SLA for RTO and RPO within a timeframe.

I would rate this review with an overall rating of eight out of ten.

We sell HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 directly to the customer. We get the pricing from HP, put some margin on it and we sell directly to the customer.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables a line of business or DB admins to self-provision storage. For our customers, HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables them to reduce the time required for storage provisioning and management.

The ability to scale capacity and performance independently has positively impacted our customer's operations.

The initial setup of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is straightforward and easy. We are not dealing with many problems during the installation and setup.

We are not using the feature of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 that enables customers to move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and back for now. I do not have an answer for it at this time.

The most important advantage we find in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as a managed service provider is not the storage itself but HP's GreenLake model, because it could be offered to our customers as an OPEX budget. That is why we are most of the time choosing HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 sometimes helps to lower their storage costs, especially if the customer is using old storage and bought an expensive storage. Sometimes more expensive storages like NetApp storages or some IBM storages, if the customer is using that kind of storages before, their maintenance support and expansion costs are pricey. That is why sometimes customers choose HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for its pricing advantages.

I have been dealing with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for about a year, but not in very much technical detail or deep dive technical detail.

The technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is adequate. There is no problem in that area. We also have some special relations with the HP Turkey office in terms of support. We are getting quick and prompt responses from HP both globally and locally.

I would rate their technical support an eight out of ten overall.

There is not that much room for improvement when it comes to response time or first-level support quality.

The initial setup of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is straightforward and easy. We are not dealing with many problems during the installation and setup.

The pricing of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is not very cheap but it is not very expensive either. It has some pricing disadvantages compared to Huawei storage, as we also sell sometimes Huawei storages. Our customers say that Huawei is much better in terms of performance and is also a cheaper choice.

The competitors have more models for different workloads than HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 has a couple of models that we can provide to our customers, but the competitors have different entry size, mid-level size or enterprise size models that could be used for AI workloads or VDI workloads. Competitors have more models for different use cases, but HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 does not have such a model portfolio. That is something that could be better.

The solution's 100% data availability guarantee is an important aspect of the product. We most of the time tell our customers that it's a 100% guarantee. That most of the time becomes a choosing point when we try to sell to our customers.

I do not have much experience in the area of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000's AI-driven predictive analytics and performance reporting, so I am not able to answer that question.

The model portfolio of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 should be increased. That's the most important part. Sometimes prices are becoming higher from the competitors. I remember that we have lost to Dell storage for certain projects. Pricing could be a little bit lower than now.

Huawei has a big penetration in the Turkish markets nowadays because of their performance and price effect. Huawei is becoming an important player in our market nowadays. Pure Storage has also introduced a new OPEX model which is called GreenFlex. Pure Storage has introduced the OPEX model to us as well. There was no other competitor in the Turkish market at least that could give an OPEX pricing model until this time. However, there are a couple of other competitors that are able to give OPEX models, especially Pure Storage nowadays. Pure Storage is becoming an important competitor. In terms of pricing and performance, Huawei is another.

HP should learn from its competitors by improving their price performance KPI points. They should investigate how Huawei is able to sell their products at lower prices and with higher performances. They need to look at that part.

My overall rating for this product is six out of ten.

I am using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, which is a SAN storage that I use for our production environment where I have configured the cluster in an active-active configuration for zero downtime.

This setup fulfills our very high production requirements very well.

Active-active means data is replicating between two HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 clusters in asynchronous mode, so there is no downtime for production.

I have never experienced any issues regarding production performance, and the IOPS and all performance metrics are very good from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

The performance of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very good.

Regarding speed, reliability, and performance, these are all very good for this storage. It is also very easy to monitor.

If your production has 100% uptime, this is a very significant achievement for any company because there is no downtime.

Regarding security, HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very secure because they use encryption with the latest encryption methods such as AES 128 and 256. I have no concerns regarding security.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is very reliable with very minimal hardware failure. It is very good in data reduction rate, production, and IOPS. As storage, it provides very good performance.

Regarding the data reduction rate for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, it is providing very good results, but for future challenges, they definitely need to work on that.

They need to provide Capex and Apex level utilization for their customers.

Because there is always room for improvement everywhere, that is why I have given the rating of nine.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is stable.

It is very easy to scale without any downtime, so it is very good.

I definitely appreciate HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 support because whenever I request support, they provide immediate support if there is any very urgent requirement.

Earlier there was HPE 3PAR and then later I moved on to HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

The implementation was done directly from the vendor.

As of now, the setup cost is good. They are very competitive compared to other vendors.

However, going forward, HPE needs to think more about this because they need to remain in the market and be competitive with other vendors, so they definitely need to work on it.

I evaluated HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 with Dell EMC and NetApp. HPE was the chosen solution.

I would recommend HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 because it is very good storage.

They provide solutions according to your needs and requirements in terms of money and production requirements. It is a time saver, though I cannot comment specifically on cost savings. I rate this product a 9 out of 10.

I usually recommend HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in the government sector. We are the integrator, not just a consultant or using Cisco products ourselves.

The features I find most valuable in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 are related to the core solutions we provide in networking. The ability to scale capacity and performance independently has positively impacted my operations regarding performance and capacity. It has helped lower storage costs. The AI-driven predictive analytics and performance reporting are already open for AI, so it will definitely help create all the necessary improvements. We have already empanelled all the solutions, so AI definitely impacts analyzing, recommendations, and performance. The solution has definitely helped reduce the time required for storage provisioning.

We are facing issues related to your services and support with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. Your product is very good, but we are facing technical issues and issues related to queries that have not been resolved in a timely manner, which would be improved on your side.

I would like to improve the response time first of all, and the second thing is clarity on who will be responsible for technical support. We faced situations when getting support where multiple channels were involved, and sometimes a technical person would call, but there was no call and no exact support at the right time.

The pricing is much higher compared to others, and if I compare it, it is a little higher, but overall it is acceptable. You definitely have to improve your pricing first of all.

Additional features that I would like to see in the future to make it closer to ten depend on situations, so I cannot specify at this time. All the features you have already applied in HP storage are good, but I think AI-based calculations and analyzing will be much better.

I have been dealing with this product for two to three years.

We do not have any issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000's ability to self-provision storage for line of business or DB admins.

I do consider HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as scalable enough.

If I can rate my current experience with technical support, I would say approximately seven.

I have worked with similar products and see some good competition to HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

This flexibility has definitely been important to me.

I do not think it is the best option on the market, as I am looking for options as well from their competitors.

We are still working with Cisco products as we are working with Cisco also. We are mainly focused on HP, but for server and storage related needs, we are working with Dell also. We have been dealing with Cisco as well as other vendors. HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 does not yet enable us to move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and back, as we have already set up the cloud functions and have no need. This solution enables line of business or DB admins to self-provision storage. This issue must be important to resolve, and overall, it is acceptable. I will definitely be looking for a hybrid solution.

It depends on the need. I cannot say any predictions at this time, as it depends on needs and how users can use and create everything, so it depends on situations. Our use of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 has been extensive, with approximately 400 to 500 users. Regarding disaster recovery, I have found the RPO and RTO to offer flexible options. I have given this review an overall rating of eight.

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is the replication.

The data we get and manage is better for the company.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 that I appreciate the most are availability for the company. These features benefit my organization because uptime is better for the company.

Managing and monitoring my global block storage environment from the solution's single cloud console is very simple for me as the administrator. It is simple since it is very easy to create hosts.

The ability to scale capacity and performance independently makes for very easy operation.

The solution has helped us lower costs.

It's helped us reduce time spent on capacity planning.

Regarding DR, the RPO and RTOs are very good. It's very important for the company to be able to recover our data easily. It's flexible. The time to recovery becomes very fast.

The administration is very straightforward. The uptime has been good.

I do not want to see any additional features. For me, it's okay.

The administration UI is only in English, not Spanish.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for one year.

I would assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 by saying the experience has no downtimes or crashes, and the performance is good.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 scales with the growing needs of my organization in terms of performance for applications. We have expanded usage for scaling.

I evaluate customer service and technical support as so-so. They take a long time to return the action plan after I send the logs. It takes them one to two days to respond. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support an eight or nine.

Before adopting HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, I was using other HPE storage solutions to address similar needs regarding performance, cost, administration, scalability, and support.

My experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is good, with no problems for now. The typical administration worked for me. It was easy. Everything can be done with a simple click.

I have seen a return on investment from HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. Our previous storage was 3PAR, and it is basically the same, it is good.

I have no visibility on licensing. I'm on the technical side. 

I considered only HPE storage before selecting HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000; no other options such as IBM were on my list.

The advice I would give to other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is to focus on performance, availability, and administration. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 overall a ten.

Our main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 involve a lot of VOD infrastructure within my company, where we store the content so that we can play it out to the clients. This is where we store most of the content.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 that I appreciate the most include the high RAM, which allows us to extract the data quickly, and the GUI, which is much more intuitive than the competitors. 

These features benefit our organization by enabling us to provide low-latency VOD content to the clients.

We need to ensure that the GUIs are intuitive so that when an issue happens, we can easily navigate through it and fix it. Everything has been smooth so far with the product.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 could be improved by integrating it with GreenLake, as this would enable us to do end-to-end monitoring across both on-prem and cloud environments better. It has a lot of capabilities, but we haven't yet put it in action.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 for more than five years.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

I haven't seen any issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 in terms of scaling capacity and performance independently, which has positively impacted our operations and helped lower storage costs. From a capacity perspective, it's very flexible. If we demand a capacity increase because of content increase, it's easy. We don't see any issues in that matter.

I evaluate the customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as excellent so far. On a scale from 1 to 10, I would rate customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 as a nine because I don't really deal with troubleshooting, and I'm commenting from what I heard from the team.

Positive

My experience with pricing, setup, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 shows that pricing was higher, but we understand that because of the stability it provides. It has its advantages and that's why it's priced high in comparison to others.

Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, we considered other solutions, including Dell EMC storage options, and there are other companies that are not as good as Dell and HP. 

It comes at a cost because with HP, things are much more stable, so that's why we decided to go that route. In our evaluation process, what stood out positively was that from a technology perspective, the HP Alletra solution was better, but from a costing perspective, it was higher. 

It had pros and cons, and we had to weigh them out and come up with a decision.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000. 

My advice to other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is that the HPE model itself is successful because they really make sure that they future-proof your solution, so the solution becomes feature-rich. 

There are many features and capabilities that the solution is capable of that we're not leveraging yet. Going with the big players is recommended because they know what they're doing, and at the same time, there's a great track record and great references all over the world. 

On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution a 10.

This solution is used as a data store for real production type workloads. We have been using it regularly and it has a significant positive impact on our organization. Our data center disaster recovery strategy is based on this solution, and all of our data backup needs are met.

In the past three years, I have not had even one escalation call, which demonstrates how simple it is to manage and monitor our global block storage environment using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

We chose this model because it suits our on-premises environment, and HPE has successfully implemented both HP GreenLake for Primera and then HP GreenLake for HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, and we are satisfied. We also have StoreOnes for archiving, which includes a call home feature with dedicated support personnel who keep us proactively informed regarding consumption levels. When we set a timer or limit, the system proactively sends an email notification.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables a line of business or database administrators to self-provision storage.

There is still room for reducing the cost. While we have mitigated the ease of administration, the cost remains an area for improvement.

Since this is primarily a cost center, we must maintain the infrastructure. We are serious about reducing costs, but this requires a long-term strategy.

Backup and restore solutions inherently have overhead because we maintain an on-premises installation. This is part of our infrastructure costs and we accept it. In a price-sensitive market like India, obtaining an administrator is much more cost-effective than the cloud alternative, which is almost four times as expensive.

I used the solution recently, approximately one month ago.

In the past three years, I have not had even one escalation call, which demonstrates how simple it is to manage and monitor our global block storage environment using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

When you have deterministic load, scalability is not a significant problem. We are not a large enterprise company where we need to expand storage capacity overnight.

HPE technical support is truly helpful.

Positive

We have been an HP shop overall, and that is the primary feedback I want to provide.

The deployment required a couple of days.

I faced no challenges with migrating because HPE assisted us with all of those aspects.

We are working with the on-premises version of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000.

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 enables a line of business or database administrators to self-provision storage.

We conduct capacity management for the next five years and have appropriate milestones that allow us to increase or decrease storage space. The system also provides a warning if we exceed ninety percent capacity.

We are not considering moving workloads to the cloud. I would rate this product an eight out of ten.

My use cases for Alletra Storage MP B10000 primarily include the data stores on the VMware cluster and also SAP, as we have an SAP on-premise that provides a different array to supply the storage for the SAP servers, while everything else throughout the globe serves as data storage for VMware.

The feature of Alletra Storage MP B10000 that I appreciate the most is the product line, especially since the Alletra MP is bringing to bear quite a lot of features that are important in the different plans, including file services, block storage, file, and everything. The older storage products we have were limited to just block storage, and we're really excited about the Alletra MP and where that's going to go, which we plan to continue when we do our data center refresh next year with a much larger array.

An example of how the features of Alletra Storage MP B10000 have been benefiting my organization is through the reliability and stability we experience, as the engineering team that takes care of it, plus my team that reports up to me, are very comfortable with the technology, which has been reliable, and HPE's support has been fantastic. Anytime we have issues, such as a failed drive or code updates, they are very helpful, and I think part of that is brought to us by the GreenLake program, having that dedicated team to keep us aware of updates, but generally, we have experienced reliability with no failures.

I would like to see Alletra Storage MP B10000 improved in terms of the program's speed, as the administration, creation of change orders, issuance of those orders, and shipping of products take a while. There's a backend machine that HPE has to go through, and we shared with them a month ago at a user group that we want to see improvements in the efficiency of that backend, as no questions arise about the technology, it's really just the paperwork required to get a contract out that is a little slow.

The solution's scaling abilities affect the operation of my business significantly, as I see it as a key feature that prevents us from being locked into a certain maximum size, and with the Alletra MP, we are able to scale quite large.

I would rate the support I've received from HPE a nine, simply for the fact that no one's quite perfect, but concerning the storage itself, they're pretty damn close to perfect.

Positive

I cannot speak to the solutions I considered prior to switching to Alletra Storage MP B10000, as that was a long time before my time, but this year I reevaluated what we were doing and why, ensuring our pricing was lined up with the market by evaluating both servers and storage technology as well as the intangibles of each vendor's support organization, leading me to the comfortable conclusion that HPE still remains the best choice for us.

I have seen a return on investment, which is a little more nuanced, as with Alletra Storage MP B10000 being an operational expense allows me to do a lot more with fewer dollars, spread over the course of the contract, and that helps bring new technology in or expand what I need to, compared to capital costs.

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been generally favorable, as the account team is pretty strong and experienced. They do their best to get the machine out, and regarding pricing, this year I compared it with other vendors, and HPE is still on par with what the other vendors have out there, so I'm comfortable with the pricing.

The main point that made me come to that realization is some of the intangibles. While pricing is on par and we know what we'll pay whether we go with Dell or stay with HPE, the team that takes care of our organization has been doing so for the last 10 years, providing on-site support quickly to replace parts, fix issues, and help us troubleshoot, with my account rep Rick Beltz and his team having the necessary resources. He keeps us updated and we have routine meetings about new technology, along with events like Discover allowing us opportunities to meet other customers as well as HPE and partners to find resources.

I am not using or managing my storage AI scale through Alletra Storage MP B10000 at this point, as we do not have an AI presence yet. It is still in development, though the storage we have, especially in the MP line, gives us that foundation, and we're ensuring that when we refresh, we refresh with the proper storage to enable that, while we are still defining what our use cases are for AI.

The solution's data reduction technology has reduced our data center power costs. I cannot specify the exact amount, but I can say that we average about a 2 to 2.5 to 3-to-1 reduction, which obviously reduces the amount of storage required and results in less power being needed because we don't require as much storage.

The importance of having independent scaling of performance and capacity for my storage system lies in serving different workloads, as I can configure the various workloads to take advantage of the processing power within the arrays.

My deployment model for Alletra Storage MP B10000 is all on-prem today, while one of the key areas we're looking at during our current visit is the hybrid cloud, with Azure Local being another key theme of the Discover event regarding HPE's collaboration with Microsoft.

I rate Alletra Storage MP B10000 9 plus out of 10.