What it is
HPE Storage covers several product lines for primary and secondary storage. For virtualized estates, Alletra is the current family, managed from HPE’s cloud console and shipping telemetry that flags anomalies before they become outages.
What it is for
Estates where storage is its own layer rather than something inside the servers. That is the classic split and it has a good reason: compute and capacity do not grow at the same rate.
Where vSAN or something like it already does the job, this is the wrong question.
What to watch
Replication is not backup. A synchronously mirrored estate protects against losing a site and not at all against an attacker encrypting the data, because the damage replicates with everything else. Both are needed, and they are two projects.
