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. 

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.