It's used for allocating disk to many servers.
System Specialist at True Digital Group
AO, CLI, and the Performance reports are the most valuable features
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
It has high availability, and it's flexible to tuning for system admin.
What is most valuable?
- AO
- CLI
- Performance report.
What needs improvement?
Integrate to monitor with CentOS.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior Technical Services Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Systems respond quicker and customers do not have to wait as long as before.
What is most valuable?
Speed, it is because systems could respond quicker and customers do not have to wait as long as before.
How has it helped my organization?
System response time.
What needs improvement?
Cost, it is still fairly expensive, cost could go down to make this technology more popular in the market.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
No issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
No issues.
How is customer service and technical support?
Fairly good.
How was the initial setup?
No comment, because we requested our local vendor to perform the setup and configuration for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Always bargain with your local HPE account manager, the price could go down a lot if you know how to negotiate with them. For example, it could help if you tell them you have another brand of product on hand and it cost less than HPE, then they would likely offer you a huge discount for their product.
What other advice do I have?
Remember, the initial setup only covered the default configuration, you have to know what you need before you know which configuration settings suit you the best.
Hardening is another issue.
All the SSL options, default password, and cipher suite are other issues which we looked at very carefully.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Integrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We can now virtualize our environments and bring in all storage into those environments.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features for us are the performance and efficiency. These servers work well even as you add more and more transactions to it.
How has it helped my organization?
Our cost savings are significant because it performs much better with greater efficiency. We can now virtualize our environments and bring in all storage into those environments.
What needs improvement?
The biggest area of improvement would be the cost. It's an expensive solution and the initial cost of ownership is high.
Another area of improvement is the loss in performance when bringing in different types of storage. You can get very high performance when you have all new storage in the same virtualized environment, but if you have legacy storage, the configurations have to be different and the performance will suffer. You end up losing a lot of the efficiency of the whole storage system.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
It deploys without any issues.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have the option to scale, though we haven't done it yet.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I still use Dell. We also looked at EMC.
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