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By reviewer2728635 -
July 4, 2025
High level of increased disk space and speed with the new features of the server
What is our primary use case?
We have used HPE Alletra Storage on two or three occasions for proof-of-concept tests at the storage level in relation to Dell's tools.
What is most valuable?
We use HPE Alletra Storage to create zones with HP tools, generally with generation 11 and 12 servers. The most significant feature would be the integration with the HP generation 11 and 12 servers that we currently have.
The greatest benefit we have seen is at the level of increased disk space and speed with the new features of the HPE Alletra Storage server. It gives us a lot of assistance since it is a complete solution that gives us the focus at the storage level and at the level of storage and consumption of resources at the level of virtualization processing.
It reduces the use of resources by almost 90% and focuses more on the solution of the alerts that are found with the jobs that are running, and detecting alerts or opportunities for improvement in performance. It is a good option for the servers to self-provision, presenting them with storage at the SAN level.
What needs improvement?
According to the characteristics we have seen of the equipment, the licensing could be greatly reduced, given the integration it has with the tools.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
According to the capacity of the HPE Alletra Storage equipment, several racks could be filled, and it would provide us with a lot of storage capacity according to the scalability we need at the bank level.
The scalability would have to be evaluated at the level of tool compatibility, since being different technologies, there would have to be a bridge or a mechanism to be able to do the migration.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We currently use Dell's technology in relation to what is Brocade technology at the SAN network level, which allows us to map various technologies such as HP, Dell, and Broadcom.
What was our ROI?
We don't typically assess ROI for storage management, but theoretically, with the improved bandwidth, processing power, and speed it should drastically cut down on slow and low disk alerts from our monitoring platform.
What other advice do I have?
Due to the topology and the amount of data and the type of data we use at the banking level, not all of it is 100% migrated to the cloud. We opt for a private cloud that allows us to save that data for the amount of time that the custody agreement that the owner of the data proposes.
The company does not marry any specific storage. It focuses more on the characteristics and the use that can be given to it and, above all, the performance for the systems with which it currently works.
I rate HPE Alletra Storage five out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
We have used HPE Alletra Storage on two or three occasions for proof-of-concept tests at the storage level in relation to Dell's tools.
What is most valuable?
We use HPE Alletra Storage to create zones with HP tools, generally with generation 11 and 12 servers. The most signific
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By reviewer2730033 -
June 30, 2025
Delivers exceptional speed and simplifies data management with cloud-like operations
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for the HPE Alletra Storage is VMs.
What is most valuable?
The feature of the HPE Alletra Storage I appreciate most is the speed. These features have benefited our organization by providing general data for our customers.
The GreenLake AI Ops enables me to get assistance from the senior support engineers without having to go through support escalations.
The solution has reduced our data management operations expenses; however, I could not provide a specific number since we were offline for a few years.
The solution has helped reduce the time I spend on capacity planning by approximately 80%.
I would assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as oversizing everything, so we have never really hit any kind of limit.
HPE Alletra Storage provides a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure. The cloud-like operational model has affected my operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management by making it very easy to navigate and easy to get to everything I need.
What needs improvement?
There is nothing I can think of offhand to improve HPE Alletra Storage or for additional features that should be included in the next release.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for probably eight months now, while we have had Nimbles for years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage as something we do not want to experience downtime, crashes, or performance issues with.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HPE Alletra Storage scales very with the growing needs of my organization. I have expanded usage, and the process was smooth as we upgraded just to add size.
How are customer service and support?
I would describe my customer service experience with technical support as good. On a scale from one being the worst to ten being the best, I would rate customer service/technical support as a ten. We have a good response time.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before adopting HPE Alletra Storage, we were replicated, which is what we considered to address similar needs.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage was that it was an expansion, not a brand new hire, and it was pretty much the exact same.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a tangible return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing is that I see a price, but that is about it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have been an HPE shop, so I have not really seen the need to switch from that when considering other solutions before selecting HPE Alletra Storage.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to another organization that would consider HPE Alletra Storage is that Zerto is probably one of the best, as we do SQL servers and everything.
For using HPE Alletra Storage overall, I would rate it a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for the HPE Alletra Storage is VMs.
What is most valuable?
The feature of the HPE Alletra Storage I appreciate most is the speed. These features have benefited our organization by providing general data for our customers.
The GreenLake AI Ops enables me to get
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By J Castillo -
June 30, 2025
Improved performance and handling of concurrency issues with enhanced parallelism
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are within a financial institution, specifically in banking.
How has it helped my organization?
An example of how these features have benefited my organization is that with Nimble, I had a problem in concurrency, and our database struggled with managing the hardware, which was the main reason I purchased HPE Alletra Storage. Currently, I have plans in the next month to install another HPE Alletra Storage unit to build a secondary storage. In the main data center, I have HPE Alletra Storage and need a second secondary data center.
What is most valuable?
Using HPE Alletra Storage has improved the performance of my storage and alleviated a bottleneck.
The most important feature is the parallelism of several cores in HPE Alletra Storage.
I assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as being very efficient, with a large capacity.
Direct access to senior support engineers is very important to me. For example, in order to use modern tools such as Zerto, I need support or some kind of training from an expert.
While HPE Alletra Storage has not directly reduced my data management operations expenses, it provides an indirect benefit. For example, in a recovery program, suppose that I have a ransomware attack, having a program to reestablish all the services can reduce costs in such critical scenarios.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see more parallelism in the next release of HPE Alletra Storage.
In my case, HPE Alletra Storage does not provide a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HPE Alletra Storage is performing efficiently as it scales with the growing needs of my organization, but it presents the next challenge for us because I'm running new kinds of tools Docker and Kubernetes in a pre-production environment.
In the next months, I will be in the production environment, at which time I will have some related metrics.
How are customer service and support?
I evaluate customer service and technical support for HPE Alletra Storage as being very good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the customer service and technical support of HPE Alletra Storage a nine. It can always be better.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.
How was the initial setup?
While you do need some help for an expert, it's not really complicated to deploy the solution.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage yet because it has been less than a year.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage has been good.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before HPE Alletra Storage, I considered Nimble and previously 3PAR. What stood out in my evaluation process about HPE Alletra Storage is its capacity to perform simultaneous operations and also the MIPS, million instructions per second, related to that.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to another organization considering HPE Alletra Storage is that it is a good product; it's very stable equipment.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as a nine.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are within a financial institution, specifically in banking.
How has it helped my organization?
An example of how these features have benefited my organization is that with Nimble, I had a problem in concurrency, and our database struggl
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By HenryConwell -
June 30, 2025
Boosts operational efficiency with point-and-click configuration and significant cost savings
What is our primary use case?
My use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are that it replaced aging, end of life hardware that we had. We have a main one in our headquarters and I also have a secondary in one of our warehouses in Nevada. I'm in New York, it's in Nevada, so we replicate.
How has it helped my organization?
The features of HPE Alletra Storage benefit my organization through stability and ease of configuration without having to jump through hoops to spin up a server and add a new datastore or reconfigure it. It's all point and click.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of HPE Alletra Storage that I have found are performance and ease of configuration. It's overall fantastic.
HPE Alletra Storage has reduced my data management operation expenses. I went from older systems where I was lucky enough to have support on it and it was more expensive, yet now this is cost-effective. HPE Alletra Storage has saved us about 30% to 40%.
HPE Alletra Storage has helped me reduce the time I spend on capacity planning by 100%. It has probably saved me a few hours a week, just from older systems trying to figure out what we have, how far things have increased, and where we need to go.
I assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as great. We get the dedupe and we've saved a ton of space. We didn't have to buy as much, so it's definitely beneficial for that.
HPE Alletra Storage does provide a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing data infrastructure, as we can manage it through Central. The cloud-like operational model of HPE Alletra Storage has been a game changer for our operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management. I can do it from anywhere. Having the ability to do it everywhere with HPE Alletra Storage has meant that it frees me up to do other tasks that I need to do and run my department and get the business moving in a better direction.
HPE Alletra Storage is more simple, easy to use, and straightforward.
What needs improvement?
HPE Alletra Storage is pretty darn good the way it is, however, in terms of cost, costs are what they are. I don't know what could be done around that. I would like to see the costs of HPE Alletra Storage go down a little bit. Everybody would want that. I would like to see the costs go down overall.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have installed HPE Alletra Storage for less than a year.
How are customer service and support?
My experience with HPE Alletra Storage support has been great. We actually had an issue about a month and a half ago where the management NIC went offline, and it just required a firmware update and they took care of it. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate HPE Alletra Storage support as a ten. They're very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was using a different solution prior to HPE Alletra Storage, which I inherited, and it was Lenovo, old, five separate systems connected with Nutanix, running VMware. To say it was a cluster is not in a good way.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment was great. Once HPE set it up, my VAR took over from there and and explained us how to do everything on our own. So it was good. Fantastic.
What about the implementation team?
HPE services came in, unboxed, rack-stacked, set it up, upgraded firmware, and got it going.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage. Just by the savings that we've had on daily tasks to do and complete, it's much faster. We've definitely seen ROI.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not consider other solutions before using HPE Alletra Storage, as I was tied to HPE.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate HPE Alletra Storage a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
My use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are that it replaced aging, end of life hardware that we had. We have a main one in our headquarters and I also have a secondary in one of our warehouses in Nevada. I'm in New York, it's in Nevada, so we replicate.
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By James Carver -
June 28, 2025
Customer service enhances support experiences and boosts operational efficiency
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are just our general use business.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
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.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before HPE Alletra Storage, we were using Nimble, and we just turned that on, so we stayed with HPE.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage, but I cannot provide specific numbers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing and setup costs is average.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are just our general use business.
What is most valuable?
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
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By Kevin Stormer -
June 28, 2025
Seamless data management and cost reduction achieved through advanced storage capabilities
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is production server storage.
How has it helped my organization?
The speed and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage have benefited my organization by allowing us to avoid worrying about the high cost of moving to the cloud quite yet.
What is most valuable?
The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I appreciate the most are speed and reliability.
HPE Alletra Storage has reduced our data management operation expenses. Since we're such a small shop, we replaced two other storage devices with it, so the cost of support, maintenance, time, and labor has helped reduce our overall expenses.
HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time I spend on capacity planning. We don't spend a lot of time on that since we're so small. I assess HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency as awesome because we've reduced from two storage arrays down to just one Alletra while still having so much more room.
HPE Alletra provides a cloud-like operational model on-premises for managing data infrastructure. The cloud-like operational model of HPE Alletra Storage has affected our operations such as deployment, provisioning, and day-to-day management by increasing our development to production time.
What needs improvement?
There are so many features of HPE Alletra Storage that I probably don't even know about, and as a small shop, we probably don't take advantage of half of them.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with HPE Alletra Storage.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization great. That said, typically, our expansion storage isn't very fast.
How are customer service and support?
I would evaluate customer service or technical support for HPE Alletra Storage as excellent since I haven't had to call them at all.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I was using an old HP storage solution.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with deploying HPE Alletra Storage was easy.
What was our ROI?
I haven't seen an exact ROI with HPE Alletra Storage. I have experienced a reduction of labor, as managing one device instead of two has helped.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for HPE Alletra Storage was good, however, licensing is always a challenge since nobody enjoys those costs, though having support going forward gives me peace of mind.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage, I looked at Synology and remember that there was another option. I don't recall what it was. What stood out to me in my evaluation process was that Synology fits in between the straight consumer and enterprise level, as they didn't seem to have a full-on enterprise product HPE Alletra does.
What other advice do I have?
We haven't had to do any support calls on HPE Alletra Storage yet, and it's been a year.
I would rate HPE Alletra Storage a ten out of ten and definitely recommend it to other organizations looking to upgrade from older equipment that doesn't have the same feature set.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for HPE Alletra Storage is production server storage.
How has it helped my organization?
The speed and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage have benefited my organization by allowing us to avoid worrying about the high cost of moving to the cloud quite yet.
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By reviewer2729982 -
June 28, 2025
Improved efficiency in storage provisioning reduces project allocation time
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are dHCI and virtualization.
How has it helped my organization?
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.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for nine months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have had one failed drive, however, we didn't have any downtime. Knock on wood, we haven't had any issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of my organization.
How are customer service and support?
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.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
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.
How was the initial setup?
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.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation process was smooth. We had professional services come out to help us.
What was our ROI?
We have seen an ROI with HPE Alletra Storage since the maintenance costs of our previous solution were higher.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
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.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
My main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are dHCI and virtualization.
How has it helped my organization?
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
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By Anand Algesan -
June 28, 2025
Provisioning and encryption ease improve data storage efficiency
What is our primary use case?
Our main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are that all of our data is on there, including SQL, Windows, file servers, ZenApp servers, and everything.
How has it helped my organization?
The encryption feature benefits our organization significantly, as we had to buy separate products that used to involve more hardware and licensing costs to store the keys. With HPE Alletra Storage, this is inbuilt, so it obviously saved a lot of money.
What is most valuable?
The features of HPE Alletra Storage that I prefer the most are the ease of provisioning and encryption, where the ability to provision a volume used to be difficult. It's easier to do now.
Feature-wise, it's pretty simple; just a one-click button to enable it, so implementing it was pretty easy too.
As for provisioning, in the old days, we had to be really specific about what type of volume we wanted, the parity size, and the cage protection model. We used to be a 3PAR shop, and transitioning to HPE Alletra Storage made provisioning very simple and easy.
HPE Alletra Storage has helped reduce the time I spend on capacity planning as InfoSight plays a big part; it tells you what to expect to a degree, and the tools it provides give you good insight on when to expect to expand, alongside the support, which also gives you good insight. It has reduced the time I spend on capacity planning by about 80%.
When assessing HPE Alletra Storage's capacity efficiency, if you're talking about data dedupe, it dedupes fairly efficiently; coming from older storage model systems that did one-to-one, we see at least a two-to-one dedupe, so that's definitely a 50% reduction.
Performance-wise, you're looking at different models; a 6030 gives you more than a 6010, and a 6050 gives you more than a 6030. When we transitioned from a 3PAR F400 or an 8200, the performance definitely increased by 100%.
HPE Alletra Storage provides a cloud-like operational model on-prem for managing our data infrastructures; we are a private cloud/managed service provider, so we don't prefer the level of cloud management of the infrastructure or the storage. We prefer to keep it in-house, however, it obviously gives us more options, where you can be just on-prem or have management from the cloud, providing a lot of flexibility.
What needs improvement?
To improve HPE Alletra Storage, it needs to have a true active-active controller; it claims to have an active-active controller from the back end, however, the second node is pretty much sitting there doing nothing. The MV 10000 series, which is the next series, is an improvement to HPE Alletra, and HPE is already doing that. In the next release, I would prefer to see better dedupe features; I know other companies do excellent dedupe, and they have protection group policies, meaning you have immutable data in case of a ransomware attack. If you're on the SAN, it should give you a way to protect that data without being erased. Other vendors have that capability built-in, ensuring that you can't erase the data, so features similar to that would be great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using HPE Alletra Storage for about three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would assess the stability and reliability of HPE Alletra Storage as being quite robust, as we haven't had an outage.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
HPE Alletra Storage scales with the growing needs of our organization; we size it based on customer needs and plan for immediate growth in the first and second years. The expansion process is pretty straightforward; we estimate growth after two to three years, building in enough space and power to expand easily. The process is very simple; it just involves connecting another shelf and adding the storage.
How are customer service and support?
When evaluating customer service and technical support, I want to highlight that, similar to my experience with 3PAR and Nimble, Nimble support was outstanding, and I never had an issue.
The support for HPE Alletra is about the same; however, there are occasions, especially after hours or on weekends, where we might get the B team, resulting in a bit of a runaround as you have to gather logs and go through troubleshooting steps. If it's the A team during the day, the solutions are usually quite good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a nine.
To make it a ten, I would prefer avoiding the runaround and the delays I sometimes experience with weekend support; in previous years, I would get immediate responses and solutions, and now the process can take several days, which can be frustrating. Streamlining that process to get quicker answers would significantly improve my rating.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting HPE Alletra Storage, I wasn't using another solution to address similar needs, as we're an HPE shop, and we were on 3PAR, which effectively transformed into Primera and then into HPE Alletra. So, all our products have been HPE.
How was the initial setup?
During the evaluation process, I did not notice anything that particularly stood out, both positive and negative; it was a better product than what we had and fulfilled our needs from our previous solutions. It was just a learning curve to adapt to the new product and the new UI.
The deployment model for HPE Alletra Storage is on-prem.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with HPE Alletra Storage. The return on investment is a bit of complicated math; the way we sell storage to our customers is by the terabyte, with locked-in prices for three or five years. It's not possible to go back and compare it and factor money in, but we try to achieve a return of interest within around 18 months for a three-year contract and 36 months for a five-year contract, just as examples to get the money back.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I am not directly involved; we go through our third-party vendor, and we pretty much just stick with what he gives us in terms of good pricing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before selecting HPE Alletra Storage, we considered various other solutions, but we're an HPE shop, so we stick with whatever our vendor gives us. Our vendor said that after Primera, HPE Alletra is the next big thing, so we just set it up.
What other advice do I have?
The solution's impact on data management operations expenses depends on what model you had, what model you went to, the size of the data, and the type of data, so it depends on many factors.
While I'm not sure if it reduced or increased costs, it definitely did not go down. HPE GreenLake AI Ops enables me to get assistance from senior support engineers without having to go through support escalations, and the basic support has been pretty good.
I would rate HPE Alletra Storage overall as an eight out of ten; while it has dedupe numbers and encryption at rest, the IOPS depend on the model, and similar models from different vendors tend to have better IOPS.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclaimer: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What is our primary use case?
Our main use cases for HPE Alletra Storage are that all of our data is on there, including SQL, Windows, file servers, ZenApp servers, and everything.
How has it helped my organization?
The encryption feature benefits our organization significantly, as we had to buy separate pro
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