HPE Alletra Storage Reviews

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are dHCI and virtualization.

The benefits of using Alletra for my organization are that the amount of time it takes for my team to define storage and allocate storage for projects has reduced, and there's less training, too. It's just easy to teach the team how to do it.

The feature I appreciate the most about HPE Alletra Storage is how easy it is to provision storage. 

We've reduced time spent on capacity planning by 25%.

The capacity efficiency is good. The deduplication and compression seem to be getting high in terms of ratios.

We use it through GreenLake. It's simplified management.

To improve HPE Alletra Storage, it would help us if CIFS is included in one of the later versions, especially since they recently released NFS.

We struggle to gain access to senior support engineers. Typically, we need to escalate via sales.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for nine months.

We have had one failed drive, however, we didn't have any downtime. Knock on wood, we haven't had any issues. 

HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization.

We had some support engineers who were not qualified to do the work, and we had to wait until we could get some qualified people to come out to fix it, which was a low point from support. It was our first experience with HPE in years. We'd used HPE in the past, became Dell EMC customers, then transitioned back to HPE, so that was not a great experience. Since that has been resolved, however, support has been really good. 

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, we were using Dell Unity and VxRail to address similar needs. Alletra gave us more flexibility to expand and the pricing was better.

Initially, we had some struggle points. The Array that came out was new and there was some technical issues. However, sine then, it's been great. 

The implementation process was smooth. We had professional services come out to help us.

We have seen an ROI with HPE Alletra Storage since the maintenance costs of our previous solution were higher.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licensing was that it was fairly simple, and the cost was better for us than a Dell solution.

Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage, we considered using our Alletra deployment as part of a dHCI solution for hyper-converged. However, we were looking at the competitor Dell VxRail solution.

My advice to other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage is to ensure that when you deploy it, you have all the necessary components in place that the teams that will install it need.

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as a nine on a scale of one to ten.

Our main use cases for the HPE Alletra Storage are for primary storage; we have four Alletra arrays, using two of them for primary storage and the other two for backup workloads.

The benefits of Alletra for our organization include the ease of detecting when we have a storage or volume that's running low, and being able to allocate space to those is simpler than other management platforms I've used.

The features I appreciate most about the HPE Alletra Storage are its ease of provisioning storage and management. From one console, we can manage all four of our arrays, making management significantly easier than previous software or storage arrays I've managed in the past. 

The solution has reduced our data management operations expenses, although we haven't quantified that yet. We know that expenses have been reduced because we have consolidated storage, managing one set of storage from one vendor instead of having two or three different storage arrays from different vendors.

I can definitely say that the solution has reduced the time I spend on capacity planning. That said, we have not quantified that. I would assess the capacity efficiency of the HPE Alletra Storage as a reduction in time. We no longer have to dig and find out when or actually act, as it alerts us when we can set thresholds for low space or performance issues, allowing us to manage our arrays more proactively.

To improve the HPE Alletra Storage, I would suggest including smart functions and AI capabilities on the Nimble versions of the Alletra arrays since we are not using the MP version at this time.

I have been using the HPE Alletra Storage for about three years.

I would assess the stability and reliability of the HPE Alletra Storage as very good; only the initial rollout had issues, but for the last two years, it has been very reliable.

The HPE Alletra Storage scales with our growing needs, but we haven't expanded usage yet; that's something we are currently considering.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support a nine. Since our initial rollout where we had issues, HPE worked with us to resolve them, and whenever we needed to talk to a rep with questions, we could reach someone quickly.

Positive

Prior to adopting the HPE Alletra Storage, we were using another solution, but I can't recall the name right now. The main reasons we moved were capacity, scalability, cost, and performance.

There were challenges initially, deploying it. I'm not sure there was an issue with compatibility between our ESX host connecting to storage, or something of that nature. However, we would constantly drop storage. We did work with HP and our third-party integrators to get that issue resolved. Since then, we haven't had an issue, even though there were initial onboarding challenges. Once we got those issues resolved, it's been pretty solid.

We haven't seen a return on investment with the HPE Alletra Storage other than the initial purchase price as we have not quantified operational costs.

My experience with the pricing and setup costs of the HPE Alletra Storage was phenomenal, which is one of the reasons our organization decided to go with it, as the setup costs were in some cases half the price of some of the other competitors with even more features.

In evaluating solutions before the HPE Alletra Storage, we considered some other HPE offerings such as the MP, however, the cost was so much more than what we needed at the time. Looking forward, we could leverage some of that MP functionality, but cost remains a factor.

The HPE Alletra Storage has not yet provided a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. We have not fully leveraged the cloud functionality of the Alletra yet, and while I know it integrates with GreenLake, we're here to learn how we can use all the functionality of the Alletra arrays.

My overall rating for the HPE Alletra Storage is a nine out of ten.

My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is storage.

The storage features benefited my organization since we were able to duplicate our Active Directory and the capacity to do our EDR.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I prefer most are storage. 

HPE GreenLake AI ops enables us to get assistance from senior support engineers without having to go through support escalations. I'm the director of IT. So if things go down, I'd like to get it fixed immediately, and storage is a big part of that.

While not definte, since I haven't used it long enough, the solution likely helps reduce the time spent on capacity planning.

It runs fast. It works fine.

The cloud-like operational model for on-prem works fast and I like the GUI interface. 

The solution runs pretty good right now, although I haven't used it for too long. The features are pretty spot on.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for less than two months.

I have experienced no downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

The solution scales well.

The issue I faced with technical support was that the power supply they sent was the wrong one since it was a case unit. It was a 240 and we needed a 120.

Once that was resolved, everything went smoothly. I understood that it was basically a supply and demand situation, so there wasn't much they could do. Once they received the part, they delivered it overnight.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate customer service and the technical support line a seven since they didn't have the part that I needed right away. That was one of the main reasons I went with them, expecting they would have parts readily available.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using an on-prem storage unit, which was usually Veeam. We wanted to go to all HP. Scalability and the fact we could go all AI were two big factors. 

The biggest challenge was again down on that unit. The power supply was not the correct power supply, and it took forever for them to send me the one that I needed. It took five months to get it.

It's only been a few months; it's hard to measure the ROI.

The vendor gave me the price, and I liked it, so I bought it.

Scalability and AI capabilities were the factors that led me to consider a change. What stood out about the product was our desire to transition completely to HPE to accommodate AI and eventually change the whole infrastructure to HPE.

My advice to other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage is to ensure they have the correct power supply before proceeding with installation. The deployment model for HPE Alletra Storage is hybrid. 

On a scale of one to ten, I rate HPE Alletra Storage a ten.

My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is currently in our compliance environment, which is a small, protected, air-gapped environment.

HPE Alletra Storage provides a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure. Since we operate in an air-gapped environment, having an on-premises solution is very important to us; we cannot rely heavily on the cloud. Therefore, having a single pane of glass to manage multiple arrays is incredibly helpful.

HPE Alletra Storage helped reduce the time we spend on capacity planning by approximately 20%.

The feature I appreciate the most about HPE Alletra Storage is that the interface is super simple for my team to use. HPE Alletra Storage has benefited my organization because it was a good transition from the previous manufacturer of storage to the new one, and it wasn't a hard learning curve for my team.

HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency is notable due to the data reduction we get from it. Compared to the previous vendor, we're getting greater data reduction, and the ease of use of the tool has greatly reduced some of the time to support.

It's pretty perfect. I cheer on all of HPE's storage solutions. I appreciate HPE Alletra Storage. A negative aspect would be that I can only get pool utilization from InfoSight, not on the local array. I have to pull metrics every month from InfoSight, and it would be easier if it were just available on the local array.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year and a half.

I have not had a single problem. Even their Nimble solution that we had earlier was perfect. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues on these arrays.

We just installed them, so we haven't needed to scale out. We do have some budgetary items in the next few years, and these are half populated, so we'll easily expand them out.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage as excellent. On a scale from one to 10, I would rate customer service as 10 because I always get quick responses, and the answers are comprehensive. We had one support case a couple of years ago that did not go that smoothly, but it was during the holidays, and there were people in and out at my company. That was just one instance; everything else has been smooth.

Positive

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, we were using Pure Storage to address similar needs, which we replaced with HPE Alletra.

I would describe my experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage as fabulous. Even in this controlled environment where it's really hard to do anything, the guides and the wizards are easy to deploy.

Because it is an air-gapped environment, we have to do everything locally on it. That was the only challenge, but the guys were perfect at walking us through setting it up from the console connection.

We don't calculate return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage in this environment because it is regulated by the federal government.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage has been really good because we have a really good partner. We use Pinnacle Business Systems, and they're seamless to work with. We feel we get the best price and value for it, and setup is super simple.

We considered Pure as another solution. While Pure has a great product, it is very expensive. For the environment that we need it for, it was just overkill, and the Nimble just comes in right where we need it. It had both an all-flash option and a hybrid option, which is what we needed.

I would advise other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage that I would not even hesitate; I would purchase them over all the other solutions we've looked at. 

I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as 10 out of 10.

We use it for our primary production storage array as well as its DR capabilities, where we replicate our data over to another Nimble or Alletra.

The resiliency of its array capabilities and the data replication features they have available are the product's most valuable aspects. 

It provides a cloud-like operating model on-prem. It has positively affected operations. The management tools they have available make it easy to provision or add additional space. It's very easy to click through.

It's been a rock-solid system. We've had a couple of drives go down before we're even aware of it and they notify us and send us a replacement.  

It's important to have a data availability guarantee, being a hospital. We need to maintain that patient data. 

The workflows are very automated, for example, if we need something replaced.

We've been able to reduce the time spent on storage provisioning by 30%. It's so easy to provision a data store or a new chunk of disk.

We've improved storage performance. The all-flash system we have is incredibly fast. 

In the perfect world, it would be cheaper. 

I've been using the solution for about five years now. 

The solution is stable and rock-solid. It's been five years. A drive may be going out since it's been so long; however, beyond that, which is expected, we haven't had any issues. 

It's easily scalable. You can build up and out with this kind of storage. 

You can get around five additional shelves, and you're talking hundreds of terabytes of data that you can put on this solution.

Technical support is great. HPE provides some of the best support we've ever dealt with. We do pay for premium support. It's worth every penny. As soon as we have a problem, we open a ticket with them, and they immediately get back to us well within the four hour SLA that we have with them.

Positive

We have a 3PAR that's also an HPE storage array. We also have a Nimble. The 3PAR has been good. However, it's getting older, and it's in need of a change. 

We do use an Azure Cloud. However, it is a very small footprint. 

The experience deploying an Alletra was very good. It was nice and easy. 

We do go through a third party to order the solution; however, my colleague and I were the individuals who actually racked it. 

We have witnessed an ROI in terms of the IOPs. The speed at which we get the data from it is incredibly fast. 

If there was another solution that was evaluated, it would have been before my time at the company.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's rock solid with great support. It's just the price that is the sticking point.

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage include SAN storage.

The integration with VMware assists my organizations.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are the UI. It functions as a black box. 

HPE Alletra Storage enables me to get assistance from senior support engineers without having to go through support escalations.

There is a one-click upgrade, which works well.

It's reduced our operational expenses.

We've been able to reduce time spent on capacity planning by 30%.

The capacity efficiency is very good. As a local government organization, we're barely filling it up.

The cloud-like operational model is great. 

HPE Alletra Storage could be improved by making the units lighter. This could be implemented in the next release.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for just about two years.

I would assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage as great; it's fantastic. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues because of HPE Alletra Storage.

HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization effectively. We have not expanded usage or added anything to the HPE Alletra Storage.

I evaluate customer service and technical support as great. On a scale of one to ten, I rate customer support and technical support as ten.

Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using another solution to address similar needs. The other solution was Nimble, and the factors that led me to consider the change included signing up for GreenLake.

I would describe my experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage as fantastic. We didn't face any challenges. 

I enjoy using HPE Alletra Storage as an engineer, however, I cannot say I have seen a definitive ROI with it.

I really don't deal with the financial side. That said, my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very good.

I don't know what other solutions I considered before selecting HPE Alletra Storage.

My advice for other organizations considering HPE Alletra Storage is to consider its ease of use, integration with other HP products, and the helpful GreenLake portal. There are very up-to-date and valid plugins inside of vSphere, and I use it in VMware. 

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

We primarily use the solution for high data reduction. We use it for compression and deduplication. 

The most valuable aspect is the data reduction and compression. Space is important for our company and more space can get very expensive. Compression of data helps cut costs. If we have 100 TB of data, it can compress this quite well. 

It's very secure and reliable. It offers good high-level storage.

We use the on-prem interface, not the cloud interface. We always use Alletra as a local management solution.

It's predictive and offers a good high level of prevention for problems. It will go ahead and open a case if there is a problem.

Storage provision is good. It's easy to use. 

The guarantee of data availability is important.

We've been able to improve our storage performance in terms of IOPS. I've checked it recently and saw that it's improved.

We've been able to reduce the time spent resolving storage-related tickets. Now, it takes a maximum of two hours. 

We haven't seen any negative issues. 

It can be less expensive. It's very expensive for us. 

I've been using Alletra for approximately four years. 

The stability is very good. 

The solution is highly scalable. 

Technical support is fast and responsive. At a maximum, we'll get a resolution in one day. However, it's usually one to two hours. 

We did use 3PAR and Primera among other solutions.

We liked Alletra's high-level storage. 

The deployment was really straightforward and easy to manage. It's very user-friendly. You simply click through.

We have yet to witness any ROI.

We have two Alletra models and have recently added another product.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's reliable. It has many features, and the data reduction and compression are great. 

My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are just our general use business.

The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are the stability and ease of use. These features have benefited my organization by making it a lot easier to manage.

The solution has reduced my data management operational expenses. It has reduced the time that I spend on data management tasks by thirty percent. The ease of use of managing the system contributes to overall efficiency. HPE Alletra Storage provides me with cloud-like data services that help me to manage my data and infrastructure.

I would describe my experience with HPE Alletra Storage as very efficient and very reliable; it's just great. The benefits of using this solution are that it's simple to use and it's been rock solid. My advice to another organization that's considering HPE Alletra Storage is to implement it; it's great and it will save you headaches.

I would rate the customer service and support a nine because it's a fantastic experience. I would also rate HPE Alletra Storage's post-launch support a nine.

HPE has come out with the essential part of a new feature, and I would like to see that completely implemented in the next release.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year.

HPE Alletra Storage scales in my organization, but we haven't expanded it yet. We have an order in place to expand our capacity, and it's rock solid.

HPE GreenLake AI and Ops have enabled me to get ticket assistance from senior support engineers to help navigate through support escalations. Having direct access to senior support engineers is important; we're a small IT team, so having somebody that you can reach out to right away is essential.

Positive

Before HPE Alletra Storage, we were using Nimble, and we just turned that on, so we stayed with HPE.

My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.

We have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage, but I cannot provide specific numbers.

My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

We have deployed it across our on-premises setup. We have two data centers, with our clusters distributed between them. There is a synchronous replication between all those clusters for complete data protection and business continuity.

The guarantee of data availability is very important for our organization because the revenue and productivity depend on the critical data, which is segregated between different tiers as per the application mapping. This data is extremely valuable for us in running our business operations and generating continuous revenue.

We started seeing the benefits immediately after the deployment of this platform. We could see the benefits in terms of reduction in outages, controlled backup scenarios, encryption, etc.

Alletra helps simplify storage operations, such as provisioning and day-to-day management, and it also lowers the cost of data protection because the service level agreements are very achievable. A complete flash array architecture enables us to leverage all high-performance GPUs and CPUs within the cluster.

Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. It enables all third-party integrations that we are looking for, thus saving a lot of time, effort, and energy.

Alletra provides complete data protection integrity. About 90% to 98% of our operational time is using intent-based provisioning, and our overall objectives are met with this platform.

Alletra saves a lot of time in managing the complete storage architecture as well as planning the budget. We can easily provision more storage. When needed, we can immediately add more arrays, and we are good.

The overall cost along with the tied bundle services is quite favorable for us. We are saving a lot of money after procuring Alletra. There are about 30% savings as compared to our previous platform. We have also saved on resources. Earlier, we had ten resources for management and operations, whereas now, we have six resources.

The most important feature is scalability, which enables us to rapidly scale without any disruptions. We can easily scale up to more arrays without stopping any services. In-line expansion of arrays is possible without disrupting current data. There is asynchronous replication across these clusters for comprehensive data protection and business continuity.

I do not have any areas of improvement as such. We have achieved all our defined objectives and metrics. Everything is performing well with no major problems or complaints and complete data protection. However, it could benefit from integrating an AI assistant module to streamline data migration between different vendor arrays in a more automated fashion.

I have been using HPE Alletra Storage since 2021.

Since deployment, we have not faced any downtime, data leakage, data loss, synchronization, or module failure challenges. Aside from other minor operational issues that are similar to those of other vendors and technology solutions, there have been no major disruptions affecting performance.

Alletra provides modular, non-disruptive scale-up and scale-out. Alletra is crucial for scenarios where time-sensitive applications are running and relying on data storage volumes. If such features were missing in the platform, it would be challenging to maintain productivity and collaboration within our organization.

We are happy with the quality and speed based on the severity of the issue. Whenever I submitted a case with a defined level of priority, I received excellent responses. About 99.9% of my problems were resolved when I contacted them for technical or non-technical issues. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

We used Hitachi previously. We chose Alletra because of its operational simplicity, scalability, and stability. The cost factor was also important.

Initially, the setup was difficult for us. The approach we followed in our legacy environment made the migration challenging. However, after completing the preliminary steps, everything proceeded smoothly, and everything is now updated without issues.

Its pricing is very competitive.

I would rate Alletra a ten out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for our data warehouse. We had a latency problem with data warehouse services. We had 3PAR and we migrated everything to [HPE] Alletra [Storage]. The latency that Alletra gives us is much lower than that given by 3PAR and it has managed to support the number of IOPs generated by the service.

The execution response times of data warehouse tasks have improved, and the reports have been produced on time as required by the Bank.

The configuration capacity it has to create a cluster for replication is excellent. 

The latency it gives me is incredible.

Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure. In terms of administration, we can do stuff from anywhere; we do not need to be on the local management network. That is one of the best benefits. So is the whole subject of team status reports through "GreenLake.

The guarantee of data availability to our organization is important. I work in a financial area, so protecting data is the most valuable task the bank has and we feel safe with Alletra.

Alletra helped reduce the time in storage provisioning. We have reduced it by two hours. Before switching solutions, it used to take us two to three hours, and we have reduced it to about 15 minutes with Alletra.

Alletra improved our storage performance in terms of IOPs. It has been reduced, however, I couldn't say by how much right now. I do know that with the storage we had before, we were already saturated with 30,000 IOPs, whereas with Alletra we have put 50,000 IOPs in it and it has worked well.

I haven't found anything that could be improved. It's a good product overall. We didn't buy it for production purposes. We wanted to use it for development. That said, due to the efficiency it has, the company is already thinking about putting it into production.

Maybe they could just reduce the number of racks and the amount of rack space.

I've used the solution for two years. 

To date, we have not generated any cases for Alletra, which means it has given us 100% stability. In these past two years, Alletra has never generated any cases for us in terms of stability issues - which is a very good sign.

We have not had the opportunity to require more resources at the moment.

Support is excellent. It is easy to ask for help, and the response we receive is very specific. We do not give the situation much thought or go back and forth about it.

Positive

We used 3PAR. We changed to a new technology due to obsolescence more than any other reason.

The initial setup was relatively simple. After installation, there were not many configurations. We were quickly up and running. The support was very good. 

We used the help of a third-party vendor and received good attention.

The issue of price and cost is handled by another area; I am from the technical side.

We evaluated Dell and Pure Storage. With Pure Storage the difference was the price. With Dell, the difference was mostly in the number of IOPs supported by Alletra and the type of rack they used.

I give Alletra a ten out of ten. I have no complaints about Alletra at this time as it exceeded our expectations.