We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra 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."At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The product cheaper compared to other solutions concerning the technology that they are using."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The performance is very good."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"I like the performance of the PowerStore. When you talk about PowerStore, it's mainly about flash systems and high-end IOPS. The 1000T is a midsize box, in terms of the way the vendor positions it, but it is more than enough for our needs."
"It provides a big benefit when upgrading a new VMware environment. For example, in a big environment with 10 to 30 ESXs, you can take everything and put that into PowerStore. So, it is cost-effective, which is very important and has been massive for us. You reduce almost 80% from the hardware and work directly from PowerStore. Building hardware, especially in a big VMware environment, is a big issue for my organization."
"When compared to Pure Storage, Dell PowerStore's cost was quite attractive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use this frame. I am a SAN administrator, but I was able to train my colleague, who had only been a VMware administrator, on the PowerStore in about half a day. Now he's autonomous in assigning volumes and creating data stores..."
"The compression is excellent."
"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."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"I do not like having to use VPLEX for synchronous replication, as opposed to having the store software built-in."
"The support is not very good."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"While using Dell PowerStore's interface in our organization, we sometimes miss out on some information."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"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."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while HPE Alletra is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while HPE Alletra is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Alletra writes "Offers high-intensity IOPS for data operations and delivers extremely low latency for disk operations". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas HPE Alletra is most compared with HPE Primera, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE 3PAR StoreServ.
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