We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra and IBM FlashSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The solution is scalable."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe has low latency and high Ops. It is an evergreen model."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"What I really like about this program, is that it is easy to use and easy to configurate."
"Overall stability is very good. It is a very stable solution."
"It offers rich features and high speed for transferring data."
"The tool's notable feature is that we don't need to log a case directly with the vendor. The tool has access to all the logs on-premises. This is an on-premises solution. Additionally, we can provision data as thick or thin provisioned. Moreover, it includes data grid duplication and compression features."
"The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"IBM FlashSystem is a flexible solution with plenty of features."
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"Most of the features for the reduction in data compression are useful. It is also very easy to use and administer. Its performance is also good."
"The solution allows for easy migrations from previous products or vendors via its embedded storage virtualization function."
"They have a virtualization feature and, even if you do not want to buy that feature, you can have it as a trial for two to three months. If you have another brand of storage from another company, you can use this tool to transfer all your data from the old system to the new Storwize system, which really shortens the migration time."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"We need better data deduplication."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing of the product."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"There is room for improvement in catering to midrange storage needs, especially for customers seeking Enterprise-class features."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"We had some issues while installing it on our servers. It required more resources while cross-checking. So, the initial setup process could be better."
"It would be better if there were an option to incorporate the NVMe feature alongside other storage tiers. Currently, the system operates on Autotier but can manually peer and mix different types of drives, such as SAS and SATA drives."
"Replication features need improvement. Currently, they are there in the product, but I'm not sure as to how it works exactly."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"This product lacks some of the options we wanted. For example, expansion was difficult and it required a lot of patching to be done."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"They can improve its initial configuration. The initial configuration is currently very difficult. There are multiple choices or alternative ways to configure based on the use case and what you are targeting out of the device, that is, more capacity or more performance. These multiple alternatives cause a lot of confusion. They should increase the processing part of the nodes. Currently, you can cluster up to eight nodes. From my experience and the workload that I am facing in my environment currently, I would like to see either a bigger or stronger node or a larger number of nodes that can be clustered together. We formally communicated to them that we need to see either this or that, and they are working on something."
"The installation is not easy. You need to have extensive knowledge to handle it."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"We had issues when attempting to do a flash, we hope to resolve it soon."
HPE Alletra is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews while IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews. HPE Alletra is rated 9.0, while IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra writes "Offers high-intensity IOPS for data operations and delivers extremely low latency for disk operations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". HPE Alletra is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, NetApp AFF, HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Pure Storage FlashArray, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Dell Unity XT and NetApp AFF.
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