Open-source alternative  ·  Enterprise Storage

Replace HPE Nimble / Alletra with TrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph.

TrueNAS Enterprise for predictive flash storage with ZFS self-healing. Ceph for scale-out with erasure coding. Replaces Nimble's InfoSight analytics with Prometheus + Grafana. No per-TB licensing.

You'd keep~R99 900 to ~R199 800/year

Current licence  ·  Enterprise Storage

HPE Nimble / Alletra

~R99 900 – ~R199 800/yr

10-user estimate

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TrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R199 800/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. HPE Nimble / Alletra's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R99 900/yr

R8 325/month

Per array

With TrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph

Keep R99 900/yr

Premium

R199 800/yr

R16 650/month

Per array

With TrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph

Keep R199 800/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

HPE Nimble / Alletra grows around 10% per year on average. TrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR89kR177kR266kR354kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R322kR20k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.42M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

HPE Nimble / AlletraTrueNAS Enterprise + Ceph, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other enterprise storage migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate HPE Nimble / Alletra.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.