HPE Alletra
Seamlessly powers your data from edge to cloud with a cloud experience for every workload.
A paradigm shift in data infrastructure with HPE Alletra
Shed the complexity and silos inherent in conventional hybrid cloud environments with category-defining cloud-native data infrastructure that delivers a cloud operating and consumption experience wherever data lives. Stop managing infrastructure — and start simply accessing and utilizing it, as a service and on demand.
Get a built for cloud experience
- Leverage via a true cloud operation web interface
- Deploy resources with auto-discovery and zero configuration
- Manage 1000s of systems as easily as you manage one
Harness AI-driven predictive intelligence
- HPE Alletra saves time and ends the constant fire-fighting with intelligence of HPE InfoSight
- HPE Alletra eliminates complexity and redefines the support experience
Get cloud-native simplicity and flexibility
- Consume resources on demand, as a service and exactly when you need them
- New data services instantly become available to you, upgrades are non-disruptive and matched intelligently to your system
- Shift from owning and maintaining infrastructure to simply accessing and utlizing it with HPE GreenLake
Compare HPE Alletra options - Get flexible consumption and maximum agility
HPE Alletra delivers agility and simplicity for every application from edge to cloud and can be provided as a service, or a fully managed turnkey offering, all with the right mix of subscription and usage-based services.
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Cloud-based as a service (STaaS), based on subscription | | | | |
On demand consumption, flexible pay as you scale up, down | | | | |
Primary workloads | General and secondary storage | Business-critical workloads | Mission-critical workloads | Flexibly support any workload |
Performance | Accelerate your apps with sub‑millisecond latency and experience speeds up to 25% faster than previous HPE Nimble Storage Hybrid Flash Arrays | Delivers up to 3X faster performance than previous HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays | Proven to deliver ultra-low latency with 75% of I/O within 250 μs latency, delivering performance density with All-NVMe for over 2 million IOPs in 4U | Meet all your SLAs seamlessly, even as your workload or performance needs evolve |
Architecture | Unique, ultra-efficient architecture that is built leveraging the DNA of HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash to optimize flash with the highest efficiency | Developed upon the DNA of HPE Nimble Storage foundation/architecture | Developed upon the HPE Primera foundation/architecture | Service that can flexibly leverage either underlying architecture of HPE Alletra |
Maximum drives per enclosure | Base array = 24 (21 bays for LFF HDDs and 3 SFF SSDs) | 24 | 144 (HPE Alletra 4N with four HPE Alletra 2240 drive enclosures) | Flexibly support from 24-144 |
Drive and storage capacity | Usable capacity (TB/TiB) between 33 - 1016 / 153 - 924 (Scale out 4X 5050 model: 4065/3697) | NVME SSDs: 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB; Up to 368 TB | HPE Alletra 9060: 1966 TiB (raw) / 6103 TiB (effective)#, HPE Alletra 9080: 1966 TiB (raw) / 6103 TiB (effective)#, #Effective capacity assumes 4:1 estimated data compaction rate (including: thin provisioning, deduplication, compression, and copy technologies) in a RAID 6 (10+2) configuration. Note TB vs TiB. Actual ratios will vary based on workload.; NVMe SFF FIPS encrypted SSD; NVMe SFF SSD; NVMe SFF FIPS encrypted TAA SSD | Flexibility of configuration and workloads (on an as needed basis) |
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HPE Alletra tech specs
Host interface and storage controller
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: Redundant storage controllers
- HPE Alletra 9000: 32Gb/s Fibre Channel; 16Gb/s Fibre Channel; 25 Gb Ethernet; 10 Gb Ethernet; 10 GBaseT Ethernet; HPE Alletra 9060 2N Controller, HPE Alletra 9080 2N Controller
Availability features
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: Triple+ Parity RAID for data protection (triple drive and intra-drive parity), 99.9999% guaranteed availability, redundant hardware/software design, no single points of failure
- HPE Alletra 9000: Redundant power and cooling modules with battery and fans, A minimum of dual redundant controller nodes, max of four controller nodes for added redundancy, RAID 6 for data protection
Absolute resiliency
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: 99.9999% (6-nines) guaranteed availability
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: App-granular, FIPS-certified encryption provides data at rest and over-the-wire protection. Secure data shredding is built in
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: Native application-consistent snapshots and replication plus integration with leading backup software
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: Redundant, hot-swap components including controllers, power supplies, SSDs, and IO cards
Host OS support
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000: Microsoft Windows® Server® VMware ESXi™ SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server (SLES) Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Ubuntu Server Edition LTS Oracle Linux Oracle Solaris Citrix® XenServer IBM AIX, HP-UX
- HPE 9000: Microsoft Windows Server; Microsoft Windows Hyper-V; HP-UX; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES); Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL); VMware ESX and ESXi; Oracle Solaris; Oracle Linux; Citrix Hypervisor ; IBM AIX; IBM Virtualization; VSI OpenVMS
- For the latest information on supported operating systems refer to Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) for HPE Storage products
HPE Data Services
- HPE Alletra arrays include a subscription to HPE Data Ops Manager for cloud-based management of the array
- Subscription is included in the quote when support is selected and has the same duration as support
Solutions optimized for HPE Alletra
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