HPE BladeSystem Benefits
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Laith Aljawamis
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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View full review »For me the benefit is the expandability. I can basically fit 16-blade Chassis inside of a 10U location as opposed to 16 rack mounts would be 32U in my cabinet. It's a lot more power, so I can really shrink my data center down a lot and still provide the same level of complement.
There's a cost saving, as there's a smaller real estate. It's not necessarily less hardware, but it reduces the power and the cooling requirements within the data center and the space is what I need.
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HPE BladeSystem
March 2024
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reviewer1326678
Manager of Capacity and Control Management at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Years ago, before BladeSystem, we had an EDM platform. We were working with IBM. We had IBM platforms. They consume much more energy. They are so big, so they take up a lot of space in the data center. At the time, when we migrated to BladeSystem, we reduced the amount of energy, amount of space, and we got more capacity. It's been very useful to us in that sense.
View full review »We were able to deploy a lot of different operating systems such as VMware and Red Hat Linux, Oracle, Oracle Solaris; also Microsoft's Windows server. All of these are fully supported within the HPE BladeSystem. It allows us to be able to implement and deploy different operating system using one HPE BladeSystem.
View full review »We have a large DSX infrastructure for VMWare and having it uniform and having it compact is a good thing for us. As we're moving forward towards using OneView I think that'll save us some FT there as well. The older tools weren't as easy to use. I went to a session on OneView and it looked a little bit more like something we were going to be able to take advantage of and save a lot of time and configuration.
View full review »The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs. Troubleshooting is also easier than other options.
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Elliott Scott
CEO at Scott Solutions LLC
It has provided us with a platform on which we have been able to create innovative solutions for our customers at very reasonable prices.
View full review »I like the BladeSystem. I've been a fan of the BladeSystems for a while, since when they came out way back in the day. My first BladeSystems I used were IBM and then HP. I liked the density. A lot of servers in one rack. There's the backplane. We get a lot of throughput in speed and the ease of attaching it to our networks is very good about the BladeSystems. It's less of everything. It's less cabling coming out of the BladeCenter, so it's easier to manage, it's just a cleaner system.
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reviewer1622238
Windows Instructor at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE BladeSystem makes it much easier since it's been there. We can set up the hardware once and just provision what we need from that.
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Ehab Nafea
Infrastructure Architecture & Planning Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Before this, we were using rack mount servers. We utilized almost 30% of capacity on those servers. But, with HPE BladeSystem, because of it's small capacity, in comparison to rack mounted servers, it gave us the flexibility to utilize all the hardware that we have.
View full review »It's the density of the compute power that you get. We've taken the ones that we can, some of the ProLiant systems, and condensed them down into blades. This has helped to reduce are footprint - reducing power consumption and cooling consumption Also, just being able to manage everything from one BladeCenter makes administration costs go down.
View full review »It's more about the redundancy. Like I said, their uptime has to be pretty much all the time. They can't really afford to have any down time. The reliability that HPE offers means the BladeSystem are a perfect fit for the company.
View full review »The low cost of deployment is the greatest benefit to our company. It saves us money.
View full review »I would guess it crosses over as the reduced cost on real estate as if we've got less room, there's less cabinets we need to buy at a data center. I don't know that there's really a cost benefit from the hardware standpoint. A standalone server is going to be cost comparable to a blade, maybe even cheaper. I guess the business is going to save money by using less man hours to get it up and spend less money on real estate.
View full review »The first goal was to use blades. This stemmed from a space problem in our data center. We needed to add more servers, but the space became short quickly. The first consolidation approach was a blades server.
- We administer all the systems remotely.
- The blade server standardized more of our configuration processes with less manual intervention.
- We also found that we needed less cabling. Now we can connect 16 servers in 10 rack units with 3 LAN and 2 SAN Fiber, instead of 48 LAN and 32 SAN fiber.
It's interesting because I think, as infrastructure becomes more and more invisible and application becomes more and more important to the business, just not having to worry about that infrastructure is the value on a business level.
View full review »We don't have to hire as many IT people because of the ease of use. That's key. With the smaller footprint, less power consumption, that saves money, and that's the bottom line.
View full review »It would be good to see the driver support improved as this has been the weakest feature of the system. Despite this, we are still 2 points better than anyone else in the market.
Also, the learning curve for configuring the first UCS blade is very steep. The difference is that with HP, if you understand the principles of how to get the blade to talk to the outside way, it’s difficult to not get it to work just by poking around the HP switch.
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Nugroho Cahyo Riadmojo
IT Network And Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
This product saved the data center space (only use 10 U Spaces for max 16 servers) and has better performance for the VMware, vCenter, and vMotion.
View full review »It's improved the factor, increased the number of VMs easily.
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Sabrin Freedman Alexander
Lead Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Before we introduced the solution, we had 24 cabinets, filled with classic rack servers. We had continuous issues with cooling capacity, power consumption for the data center, high availability, and redundancy.
After implementing the BladeSystem environment, we went down to four cabinets only for servers, since it's a perfect platform to host a high-end VMware farm.
Coupled with HP 3PAR SAN devices and peer persistence, I managed to create a 99.99999% uptime environment.
Currently, we have enjoyed an increase in price/performance of 500%, compared to several years ago.
View full review »BladeSystem was a huge improvement over rack. We gained an awful lot of productivity when we went to BladeSystem, because we can set up so much infrastructure in one swipe. Then you've got networking capability and storage capability. It really made life simpler.
View full review »The reliability that is behind it, those efficiencies, that reliability makes sure that my customers have the services they need to support the business at all times.
View full review »It’s reduced, by about 50%, our administration time in terms of server maintenance. We have the ability to withstand an outage that we didn’t have before.
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reviewer966441
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
HPE keeps on releasing new BladeSystems. We started with G4 and have used G5, G6, G7, G8, servers. We find these upgrades very useful. As our business volume grows, we're able to find an appropriate HPE server to use.
View full review »The biggest benefit is the minimum downtime due to the programmatic nature of the whole thing.
View full review »There's definitely great advantages in the efficiency of time savings, both from a personnel perspective as well as the ability to quickly deliver on new offerings.
View full review »It helps our company with backend capacity. It supports the infrastructure. It's performing well.
View full review »As I’ve mentioned, the benefits are flexibility and the fact that we can scale up our environment as and when we want to.
View full review »For us, it's the flexibility. We have to look at every nickel, and what we've found is that with the virtualization, we can get a more bang for the buck. We're using everything to it's full potential, and for a number of years we had ProLiant DL380s in the racks and they might be using one application on it. If we can take that and move it into the BladeSystem, then we can run six, seven, or eight servers off of the BladeSystem, and then everything is a lot easier to manage. We've got blades in there and we've never had any issues with equipment. We like the flexibility of being able to make a change without having to go and buy an extra drive. The whole virtual infrastructure is wonderful.
View full review »The solution was used for the deployment of a High Availability, Hyper-V cluster of 10 Nodes, it dramatically improved the organization services in terms of performance "having things done faster", availability "services are online 99.99% of the time" ,and scalability "add new and provide more services". Currently the system is able to handle all our organizational requirements, from running Oracle CRM system, a BI system, an ERP system, web-services , and a development/staging platform. The cross functionality and integration between the plat forms are more efficient, fast and almost no down time due to the internal communications backbone in the chassis.
The scalability of these solutions and its great adaptation to existing software models has allowed our cloud environment to grow easily. The physical volumes with data combined with its performance, has enabled us to reduce our pool of conventional equipment, and converge High Availability solutions in our cloud environment with powerful hardware.
View full review »They do what they’re supposed to do. They’re very flexible.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- iLO even in its basic form can get you out of hot water as you can just do a remote power-cycle. iLO Advance can get you to remotely troubleshoot the OS even if its in a defunct state
- RAID I have found useful as its quite easy to remotely expand the array
- Upgrading of firmware is very easy as well, even in a VMWare vSphere (ESXi hypervisor)
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reviewer1517220
Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Software-defined hardware might sound counter-intuitive, but it is the way of the future.
View full review »This solution has improved our organization as follows:
- Ease of management and configuration through a single pane of glass for up to 16 blade servers.
- Leveraging the Onboard Administrator for control over troubled servers without the need for physical access to the servers.
- Ability to reset blade server fuses remotely if they become completely unresponsive. Removes the need for many calls to a datacenter for support.
- OneView has taken this a step further with newer generation blades. This cannot be leveraged on the blades older than Gen7.
It is very convenient that we can assemble them like building blocks. We can just buy them and put them in the system. They are standard building blocks.
View full review »It's mainly focused on management and reliability. It's a fairly reliable platform, almost no outages. It works perfectly.
View full review »High consolidation and density was achieved with a single C7000 enclosure and 8 BL460c G8 series servers that took over the workload of 8x .42U cabinets previously used for processing workloads. In combination with Flex-10 and Flex-Fabric technology we managed to reduce our 8x cabinets into just 1x 42U cabinet saving huge amounts on power, energy, while we became more flexible, scalable and efficient.
View full review »The HPE BladeSystem delivers a modular infrastructure for the data center. The main critical applications and virtualization farm were running on the BladeSystem with great performance and reliability.
View full review »When we initially went with blade servers, our footprint in the datacentre went down. We still have to use large ProLiant servers. We mainly use it in a Citrix environment, so we use each blade as a Xen host. Although we might have about 400 blades, we've then got four VMs running off that, whereas in the past, we would have had thousands of servers all stacked up on top of each other.
View full review »Reliability means more uptime. We don't get so much dysfunction in the business. Flexibility and memory are good. Managing has been fairly straightforward. It's got a good interface to manage. I don’t have anything bad to say.
View full review »We were growing beyond our data center rack spaces with our 1U2U rack mount servers. We had a lot of them. We had a lot of HP DL360 and 380 servers and we were burning rack after rack after rack. When we consolidated to blades we were able to reduce our footprint in the data center.
View full review »We work with the NHS and we had a big system disaster one time when a system threatened to go down. With the BladeSystem, we were able to move everything quickly from one blade to another. It was fantastic and we averted a crisis.
View full review »We don’t have to worry about manufacturing it ourselves. We can take advantage of HP’s scale to achieve much shorter delivery cycles.
We’re just introducing it in the middle of this year, so in my labs I’ve got about 200 blades in many different chassis.
We’ve placed another order for a 20-blade system, and I expect by next year we’ll have hundreds of blades.
View full review »Having implemented this solution, it has enabled to have remote management of the equipment problems, to identify the power for reviewing the status of errors without having to be on-site, but remotely from anywhere required.
View full review »- Enabled remote management of the equipment's problems/issues
- Helped in remotely identifying the power to review the status of errors
The hardware is very dependable. We don't have a lot of downtime. Whenever we do need to call support, support is always very fast and able to jump on things. That's what we like about it.
View full review »It takes away our employees' worries about having to disconnect. We don't use HP's services, but in terms of hardware, we're happy with it.
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Simon Chaba
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm
It is a single integrated solution that can be deployed anywhere. Best solution for our mobile tracking station.
View full review »- Ease of use
- Reliable
- Scalable
- Simple
This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption. Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced.
View full review »Like all the blade systems, they save rack space, power and cooling requirements, cabling complexity and are adding features like the single point of management.
View full review »It's saved space and, I suppose, cost. There's less maintenance, less wires, and smaller footprint by quite a lot. There's also virtual management as opposed to physically plugging things in.
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Orhangazi Yıldırım
System Architect at KT Bank
HPE Blade system has the ideal server density that saves your data center space and reduces cable traffic in cabinets.
View full review »HPE BladeSystem was introduced by me as an architect to boost the performance/server footprint, especially with VMware virtualization.
View full review »It has given us a much reduced server footprint with a subsequent reduction in cabling and a lower carbon footprint.
View full review »The main benefit has been in terms of the newer platform having much more computer power. You can see your workloads completing much quicker. Users with feedback in terms of workload performance have reported that a job that typically took 3 or 4 hours to run took a few minutes.
View full review »We went from traditional rack servers, consolidated to blades, making management easier. However, we required better capacity planning due to "blade server" lock-in.
View full review »The biggest improvement to our organization is that we can now expand our IT infrastructure easily. We can seamlessly implement additional IT assets if we want, whether that's to execute different plans or to remain consistent in our operations. We can changes things as we need to as we go along. With blades, it's a lot simpler for us to deploy, expand, and virtualize.
View full review »BladeSystem has allowed us to create our own service area or banking area. We're able to provide a platform where we can start offering services back to the various groups within our organization and our external customers as well.
View full review »The product allowed us to save physical space and energy. Initially, we only bought this product to use Integrity blades. Eventually we used the vacant slots for HP x86 blades, which we used for Vsphere. This decision allowed us to save even more physical space.
View full review »A couple of those HPE BladeSystem Enclosures can give you a stable and distributed compute resource for a virtual environment.
View full review »- It enables us to expand easily. The whole blade center's a very plug-and-play type system so we can expand rapidly and increase our farms easily.
- There are performance benefits to it as well. We've moved up generations of servers with the blade environment.
- It's very flexible.
It saves us a lot of space, supplies, and amenities. That is important for us. The performance of the system is very good.
View full review »Less real estate - that's pretty much it. Manpower and time, and even resources, electricity. Bills go down because of BladeSystems.
View full review »We use a lot of HP products, in fact, and so HP is a big partner of ours. It makes things in our organization run more efficiently and with less interruption when we run the BladeSystem with our other HP solutions.
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Reviewer7839213
Scientist/Engineer 'F' with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our requirement is 99.9999% uptime. That is what we have experienced from these servers.
View full review »This particular product allows us to mix up the environment - not only x86 but also the HP UX where the critical application were deployed. This particular architecture (BladeSystem) also allows us to have higher density which cannot be reached by traditional rack-mount servers. Currently, the latest trend (hyper converged approach) is still under observation.
View full review »This server comes with up to 2TB of memory which allows us to run more virtual machine on single server. We can leverage it for a higher consolidation ratio.
View full review »The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution.
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Ahmad Hassan
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
- Management
- Diagnostic
- Monitoring installed servers becomes easier
- HW maintenance and management becomes easier
Getting more out of what you purchased. Like the virtualization of the product and especially the virtual connects allows for better efficiency in usage. There is also easy management and easy upgrades.
View full review »It's improved our operation and efficiency with it's great uptime. Since implementing it, we experience very little downtime.
View full review »It's a space saver and easier to manage, as we've gone from hundreds of cables to 13 racks. Previously, there were so many wires with 180 servers that we could trip up or fall over them.
View full review »Consolidation.
View full review »We created a VMware Cluster with HA, assigned host profiles, and managed the network.
View full review »- Inventory management
- Firmware and driver maintenance
- Server monitoring
- Server provisioning and uptime
It's about standardizing the infrastructure. Now we're only using one physical infrastructure and one software platform for the management.
View full review »By implementing VMware on our systems, we increased the utilisation of resources, and the hardware is highly performant with no failures.
View full review »Improves capacity and aids organizations in adapting to their growth.
View full review »The ease of management allows us to see issues related to server problems and the functioning of VMware products on those servers.
View full review »HP is a good partner, as they really try to understand and build trust with our market.
View full review »It hasn't really made a big impact on our organization. We are not that big, only three people in the server operations group. The use of blade servers has had no impact on organization.
View full review »More physical resources can be added to our pool with better maintenance.
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Alfousseynou Bomou
Engineer at Platform Technique
Simple and easy installation.
The mail exchange server runs smoothly on the Blade Server.
View full review »Alongside HP 3PAR and VMware hypervisor, it is easy to manage the server.
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HPE BladeSystem
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about HPE BladeSystem. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.