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."It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"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 initial setup is straightforward and can be done in an hour and a half by one person."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Installing FlashSystem is very easy. It takes less than half an hour, and I can handle it all myself."
"It's very easy to manage."
"It is simple to make an update."
"User friendly management interface."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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."
"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."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"If you want to expand, you cannot expand the disc enclosure. You have to buy a total individual node. Sometimes, this is difficult because we are just looking for capacity and not a node."
"The solution is not easy to use and could improve."
"Sometimes the performance is effective but it gets resolved in the process."
"GUI interface should be enhanced more as there is some issues in copy services."
"The GUI for monitoring performance metrics could provide better visibility. For example, it doesn't let me segregate the IOPS per volume."
"The solution's infrastructure technology level could be PCI Express 5 instead of PCI Express 4 for the next version."
"The solution should improve its pricing and the mechanism in the reduction pool."
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, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado.
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