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title: HPE Storage
tags: [storage, data-management]
vendors: [hpe]
summary: Primary storage for virtualized estates. The choice is settled by the required availability and recovery time.
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sourceNote: HPE, HPE Alletra Storage family page and its portfolio comparison table, read 2026-08-30. Capacities and workload labels are transcribed from that table.
vendorName: HPE Alletra Storage
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  Draft, not yet reviewed. The architecture follows from how long a restore is allowed to take.
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## What it is

HPE Storage covers several product lines for primary and secondary storage. For
virtualized estates, Alletra Storage is the current family, managed from HPE's cloud
console and shipping telemetry that flags anomalies before they become outages.

## The three arrays HPE sells today

**Alletra Storage MP B10000** is the mission-critical one: unified block and file, up to
5.8 PB raw in 2U. This is what sits under a virtualized estate.

**Alletra Storage MP X10000** is object and file, up to 11.8 PB in the same 2U, and HPE
aims it at AI, analytics and data protection.

**Alletra Storage 5000** is the general-purpose hybrid array, up to 1.2 PB in 4U, for mixed
primary and secondary workloads.

Older Alletra model numbers still turn up in quotes and in existing estates. HPE's current
family page no longer lists them.

## 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.

## What to watch

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. Backup is
therefore needed as well, and it is a separate project.