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."Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade is user-friendly. It's replication feature is great because it has active replication and active DR. That's the beauty of the product. It's a perfect solution for block storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The solution provides many controllers."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"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 features of this solution are the rewrite speed and the nonstop services."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"Compared to, for example, Hitachi NAS, the solution is not mature at all. It's just in its infancy as far as technology goes."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"I have not seen ROI."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."
"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."
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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