HPE Integrity Reviews and Pricing

it_user5067

Systems Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 13, 2013

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Versatility and redundancy are great. But requires manual work to manage resources

Pros and Cons

"We currently deployed HP Integrity blade servers; they offer great versatility, redundancy, and a rapid method of deploying multiple virtual guests within 10 minutes."

"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."

What is most valuable?

We currently deployed HP Intergrity blade servers, They offer great versitility, redundancy, and a rapid method of deploying multible virtual guest within 10 minutes. The blade server packaging offers the ability to add addtional blades without downtime. The integrated networking, power, and san storage reduces the need to run new cabling just to add a new server when addtional blades are added.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see a GUI interface to mange resources and deploy new servers. The current method requires a lot of hands on with a lot of check and recheck. SAN storage lun assignment is lost on the guest side without running commands on the master server and the guest to extrapolate which physical luns are assigned to which file system.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.