We performed a comparison between HPE BladeSystem and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."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."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The solution has high performance."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"I would like to see better integration."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Cisco UCS B-Series, Dell PowerEdge M and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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