HPE BladeSystem Reviews

We are using HPE BladeSystem for commercial usage.

The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration.

I have been using HPE BladeSystem for several years.

The solution is stable.

I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

I rate the scalability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

I have previously used Dell and Cisco UCS.

The initial setup of HPE BladeSystem is not complex. The deployment is typically dome done within one day, a maximum of two days if it includes the OS or virtualization.

I rate the initial setup of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

We have a team that does the implementation of the solution.

The price of HPE BladeSystem could improve. They need to reduce the price to be able to compete better with other vendors, such as Dell.

Cisco UCS is the worst for pricing, then Dell, and HPE.

I rate the price of HPE BladeSystem a seven out of ten.

The maintenance of the solution can be done by one person.

I rate HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

These are rack servers. 

We have data for banking services. We use Windows servers, mostly. We install applications and banking applications mostly, otherwise like some E-discovery services servers are there. We have almost 25 servers. Some of them are in a data center, and some of them are in-house.

We can enhance the processors and increase the RAM. It's easy to do. It's very easy to upgrade.

The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly.

It's simple to set up if you have some experience with the product.

The solution is very stable. 

It is scalable. 

If you've never used the solution before, the initial setup can be complex. 

The pricing is high. If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high. At this point in time, we are looking for some servers and when we have compared the prices we found Lenovo is the lowest option, even though they have about the same level of services. 

We'd like them to be more scalable.

I'd like to be able to implement a single test system.

I've used the solution for a few years. 

It's a stable, reliable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good.

They can scale if it is required. 

We have more than 1,000 users on the solution right now.

Technical support is good. They are helpful and responsive.

Positive

Depending on your knowledge, the solution can be very easy or a bit complex to set up.

These are rack servers, so most of the time goes into acquiring them. Once you order them, it takes around four to eight weeks to get them. Once you get those servers, they can be deployed in a week or five days' time.

How many people you need for maintenance depends upon the technical guys as well as the applications themselves. If you're maintaining, then you just need two or three guys. However, it would take more resources if you talk about connectivity and application maintenance and other parts. It also depends upon the number of servers we have installed. 

The cost of the solution is high. There are other cheaper options.

There is no licensing. You pay for the solution once. 

We are currently comparing the solution to Lenovo.

We use it in-house and in a data center.

They need to make the product more scalable and price-efficient. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. 

I would rate the solution seven out of ten. It needs to be a bit less expensive. 

This solution is for medium to enterprise-size organizations. I'm the IT manager of our company and we are customers and users of HPE BladeSystem.

Modularity is key to this solution. It's the main feature and it provides energy savings because you have one enclosure, and one system for the energy and power supply. In terms of connectivity, Blade is more versatile than other solutions because of its three-tier architecture. I know the new trend is HCI technology, but that requires changing the whole node which increases the cost. On the SAN storage, I don't have to change anything on Blade. If I need to change the memory, I can do it blade by blade, and don't have to upgrade the whole node of the plate.

The connectivity speed could be improved. It's the major thing everyone looks for. When you upgrade your system, you want connectivity at the highest speed possible. 

I've been using this solution for 10 years. 

Stability is great and it's a reliable solution. We haven't had a single serious incident and only a couple of minor issues. It's one of the reasons it's an expensive solution. Competitors would not be able to compete. 

I believe BladeSystem is more scalable than HCI. If I want to add more storage or more memory on HCI, I have to add additional notes. With Blade, if I need extra storage, it's just a matter of additional discs. 

HP are the best on tech support. I really appreciate that they never leave you in the dark. They always track your case and can be very proactive, sometimes telling me if I have a storage problem. If there's a power shortage or power fluctuation, they let me know. 

Positive

I previously worked with Dell and with IBM. Both are now good companies, especially when they merge their technology with EMC. I don't have recent experience with either of them. I think they've improved a lot over recent years and are probably at the same level as HPE.

When we initially deployed BladeSystem, it was a little complicated but once you're set up you don't need to think about it. The main difference between the HCI and Blade is that HCI is easier when it comes to setup.

HPE is not the cheapest solution but if you want to buy a Rolls Royce, it costs. They are the most expensive product on the market. It's been 10 years since we implemented it, so I don't remember the licensing cost. 

My advice is to grow slowly, but plan for your growth. Don't get an enclosure that won't have expandability and don't go to a cheaper all-in-one model because you might get stuck with it for four or five years. You have to make sure that your system is expandable and that you can grow with it.

Overall, I rate this solution nine out of 10.

Most of our things are low intensity on the compute side. It is just redundancy and backup. We have some legacy apps that are web applications on .NET. They're all Windows servers.

We also have some file servers. When it comes to the file servers, we are getting away from that and moving everything to the cloud. It is mainly going to be used to maintain our legacy infrastructure, and it is mostly going to be for .NET and low-intensity things.

Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us.

With iLO and other features, our experience has been really good especially when a lot of people are working remote or offsite. The iLO feature gives us the ability to get onto our server when we're remote. In the case of any issues, we can access it and reboot it if we need to.

I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely. 

Our company has had HP rack servers for 20 years.

I've only been here for seven years, and it has been really good all these years. For servers, in general, the goal is to be stable. Most of them are redundancy-based, and I don't remember having any issues. We probably had a switch fail once, but we had dual. We just got a replacement and swapped it out. There was just hard drive failure, but that's just the nature of the beast kind of thing.

We haven't done a ton of scalability. So, I don't have any thoughts on that.

In terms of its usage, we're a regulator. We are representing five industries right now. We probably have a couple of thousand people using it on their external site accessing it, but internally, we're a small organization. We only have about 300 employees. Our infrastructure team has three people right now, and we are hiring two more infrastructure people. We're not huge. In theory, one person does pretty much all the maintenance.

I personally haven't interacted with them, but my team's experience has been pretty good. They haven't had any complaints. We've always had one of the top-tier, low-downtime support packages. When things fail, usually, we get a response right away, and if it is a part-related issue, it is handled right away. I have never heard them say anything that would imply that they're not happy with the support. 

We just did a merger, and the organization we merged with has two Lenovo blades that we use. Our boss's boss is a big Lenovo fan, but we don't have a ton of experience. It has been six months of usage.

It is very straightforward. The application configuration is somewhat complex, but we'll be migrating. So, it'll be very straightforward.

We're in the early stages of replacing some of our legacy hardware. Currently, we're primarily HPE, and we do have some Lenovo racks, and they're pretty old. Some of them are approaching six years.

I haven't directly dealt with HPE, but I've heard that HPE has been really good. People didn't have any complaints, but my boss's boss likes Lenovo for some reason. We're doing a general cost analysis and shopping around to see what it is like out there and what other people have experienced. We are looking at solid state because we are currently on mechanical hard drives. 

Ideally, we'd like to keep everything in the same family just to limit complexity and have the same manufacturer. Having two or three manufacturers means extra things to have to look after. We are moving to the cloud as well. We're just trying to make our server room less complex.

We like it for the most part. Support is always key for us personally. Don't lose sight of it, but ideally, it is a set-up-and-forget solution.

I would rate it a nine out of ten because it is always good to have something to strive for.

HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor.

I have been using HPE BladeSystem for approximately 20 to 25 years.

I have found the HPE BladeSystem can be stable most of the time. 

I can see the BladeSystem is having some hardware failure issues. I can see this happening frequently in one of the customers. If they can increase all the bandwidth on the internal network backbone, they should increase it to 100 GPPS. Additionally, The HPE BladeSystem has internal storage, but we cannot populate it as shared storage across the load. If we can provide the local storage as shared storage across the load, that would help the customers.

HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console.

HPE BladeSystem provides excellent technical support from their team.

The initial setup of the HPE BladeSystem is complex with the OneView console.  You can see a lot of tabs and a lot of settings. The configuration could be more user-friendly in OneView, which will be helpful for the customer to manage all the testing.

HPE BladeSystem does not require a lot of maintenance, because all the components are specific and the costs are less.

The licenses for HPE BladeSystem are perpetual.

My advice is if a customer is looking for a less-density server, HPE BladeSystem is a highly suitable solution. If you install or if you require the 12 servers in the rack, it will take the 12 to 15 space in the rack. Additionally, we have to think about the cabling.

I rate HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

We use the solution as a web application server. Multiple users visit our university website. The students watch live video lectures and download them.

Remote management features are valuable. We can manage it over the network from anywhere. We can get consolidated reports. We need not visit data centers. The performance of the tool is great.

The tool must provide integration with the cloud.

I have been using the solution for four years.

The tool is stable. I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. Sometimes, we face hardware failure.

We have 1200 users.

We receive support from the partners. The support team is customer-friendly and provides fast responses.

The setup is okay. We have a technical team that takes care of deployment and maintenance.

The product is worth the money.

The pricing is competitive.

I take care of accounts. I will recommend the solution to others. If an organization has storage needs, they can use the solution. Overall, I rate the product a nine and a half or ten out of ten.

The system has versatile applications, as it can serve as a host for various environments, including virtual and DDI environments. Even the Horizon View environment can run exclusively on this system.

This is a sophisticated solution that covers the entire process, from the components such as network and storage, up to the smart components. It also includes power management and is fully managed.

The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability.

The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. 

This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage.

I have been working with HPE BladeSystem for five years.

HPE BladeSystem is also commonly known as ProLiant BL. ProLiant is a brand of server products manufactured by HPE, and the BL designation specifically refers to the blade form factor used in the BladeSystem line. The ProLiant BL servers are the blade servers that are designed to be used with the BladeSystem enclosures.

We are using version Gen Nine.

HPE BladeSystem is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

I would rate the scalability of HPE BladeSystem, an eight out of ten.

I have worked with Synergy within the last 12 months.

The installation is not difficult

To install the system hardware, we engaged the services of HPE professionals to ensure proper installation.

I don't have access to your financial information or the specific details of this solution's pricing.

There are no additional fees. It is the hardware and the support.

It all depends on how you configure the network components with the plate. That should be done properly, you know. If you configure it correctly, the network component and this connectivity will be available. There will be no issues throughout the update, repairing the hardware, upgrading the firmware, and so on.

I would rate  HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten.

We use HPE BladeSystem for many purposes, such as enterprise applications and Oracle transfers.

The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management.

There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem.

I have been using HPE BladeSystem since they were released, approximately 25 years.

HPE BladeSystem is a stable solution.

The HPE BladeSystem is extremely scalable.

We have some clients that have thousands and hundreds of people using the solution.

The initial setup of HPE BladeSystem is straightforward.

The price for HPE BladeSystem can vary between $100,000 to $1 million or above. The price can be high.

The solution is simple and easy to manage.

I rate HPE BladeSystem a ten out of ten.

The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly. Configuration is also straightforward and similar to installing Windows.

There are limitations in writing exploiter features because of the sanctions.

Because we use this solution in Iran, I am unsure about the rules in Iran. Because Iran is a sanctioned country, we don't access any features and must use a program for our routine. We don't have access to add to anything in the HPE.

We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature. It would be great for IT technicians, IT specialists and IT assistants.

We have been using HPE BladeSystem for two years. Is it a software system, we have many servers, and we use them daily for our banking, infrastructure, and government customers. It is deployed on cloud. Last month we switched our cloud, and we route the solution to connect Synergy Server and cloud services.

It is a stable solution.

The solution is scalable.

There are limitations to the technical support due to the sanctions in Iran. The HPE services have very good documentation, but we can't use it. We can't use this documentation without a VPN or proxy. In government organizations, we don't have any VPN or proxy, and support is very important.

The setup and installation were easy.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten.

HPE BladeSystem is used to consolidate the server's footprint.

The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management.

HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring.

I have been using HPE BladeSystem for approximately 15 years.

HPE BladeSystem is very reliable, it is 100 percent stable.

As our business grows the HPE BladeSystem is scalable.

We have approximately 400 people using the solution in my organization. We plan to increase the usage in the future.

I have contacted HPE several times the HPE BladeSystem, and I was satisfied with the speed and their response.

I have previously used IBM and I was not happy with the solution. However, they no longer have the solution, they sold their portfolio to Lenovo.

The initial setup of the HPE BladeSystem was easy. The time it took for the deployment was approximately two days.

We used support from the vendor for the deployment.

I have seen a return on investment from using the HPE BladeSystem.

When you purchase HPE BladeSystem you have to pay for the support service. The first three years are covered under the warranty, and for any further support, you have to pay annually. When comparing the cost of HPE BladeSystem to other vendors, the fees are less expensive.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate HPE BladeSystem an eight out of ten.