HPE BladeSystem Room for Improvement
JuanDuque
Manager of Capacity and Control Management at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
One thing that is already being fixed in the new solution is how you connect with the console of tech management of this Blade or other enclosures. Right now, usually, you have to connect one by one, and it's a little tedious. And besides, the better option or best option they have to improve is to consolidate the way you connect to this platform. Right now, for example, if the new solution (Synergy) has a way to connect to everything and is a one-view console, it would be ideal.
It could always use new tools.
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Jurie NOrtje
Senior IT Operations Specialist at Denel
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 stability can be improved. I have been using HPE technology since 2008. I don't know what the new technologies look like.
In short, I would like to improve the stability, support, and pricing of the solution.
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Laith Aljawamis
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features.
This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage.
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HPE BladeSystem
March 2024
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Naief Mubarek
IT Manager at Umm Al-Qura University
The connectivity speed could be improved. It's the major thing everyone looks for. When you upgrade your system, you want connectivity at the highest speed possible.
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William Griffiths
Systems Analyst at BCFSA
I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely.
Marziyeh Bahrami
Project Manager at AHS
We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature. It would be great for IT technicians, IT specialists and IT assistants.
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Sathish Ravichandran
Server & Cloud Architect at Icare
The learning material available to understand the functionality of GreenLake is limited. They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product.
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Ali Balandy
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
As long as they keep getting the new Compute generations, it would be ideal. Generation 10 was the last that they wanted to support on Blade Enclosure. That's unfortunate though. It may be coming to its end of life. Other than that, I don't have anything else to improve upon.
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Jiju Gopinath
Senior Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Kamco Invest
HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring.
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Shriniwas Badgu
Solution Architect at Shro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor.
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Joseph Raisi
IT Manager at Botswana Accountancy College
We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts.
Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them.
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it_user485712
Senior Datacenter Specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
They're physically big, about 240 lbs, but it's a minimal issue. I just started to get a BladeSystem that works, and I'd like to to work a little bit more with the ConvergedSystem.
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Ayush-Jain
Technical Consultant at Inflow Technologies
The tool must provide integration with the cloud.
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Ali Yazıcı
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
The price of the solution has room for improvement.
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Sharique Rizvi
Member of management at Cyprobes
If you've never used the solution before, the initial setup can be complex.
The pricing is high. If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high. At this point in time, we are looking for some servers and when we have compared the prices we found Lenovo is the lowest option, even though they have about the same level of services.
We'd like them to be more scalable.
I'd like to be able to implement a single test system.
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Kavinda Herath
Network Engineer at Lyceum
Sometimes there will be a delay and it will take some time to restart the server.
The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size. Still, the Dell servers are comparatively large, but handling these servers, even just moving them or mounting them in the rack, is a huge challenge for us. If it is possible to reduce the size, that would be great.
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reviewer1328754
Account Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem.
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reviewer1261665
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
These particular blades are no longer being produced. If they produced more or offered support for them I would be interested in getting more.
It would be ideal if they had been offered at a lower price point. If they bring them back, I'd buy them at a lower price point.
The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others.
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reviewer1326678
Manager of Capacity and Control Management at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020. Right now, if you try to buy a BladeSystem, you have to buy Synergy. I did try to buy some BladeSystem Generation 10 solutions in the USA. HP told me that they can sell this for the regular channel of HP still.
Right now, the Synergy platform has a management console that has a lot of options or features that help the administration of the platform. IN addition to that, this console cooling could integrate with the monitoring platform, so we could monitor integrity.
That said, this solution is discontinued, so any new features would only be useful on Synergy.
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Reginaldo Aires Junior
Systems Engineer at AXA Assistance US
We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly.
We have a few Blades from previous generations that cannot have the updated firmware upload to them unless you have a maintenance contract with HP. This is a frustrating problem we have experienced with the support.
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Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances.
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Philip Sellers
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.
We had a lot of work to do from a management perspective as an administrator to ensure that we had the correct firmware and driver levels, and things like that, between servers. HPE fixed that when they introduced the service pack for ProLiant. OneView has expanded the idea of server profiles and added some additional management ease - including the ability to define firmware levels for blades - the way that a Cisco UCS blade does.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
I think some of the stuff may be fixed but one of the issues we have is firmware on virtual connects. There's a little bit of overlap on the timing that causes, you know, if you're not careful it can cause a short outage for the Blade System. I think that may be fixed with OneView management.
We're working on implemented OneView. We're just barely getting started. I think OneView is addressing a lot of the issues that we have, we haven't been able to get fully into it yet due to limited resources.
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Nishant Ambast
Deputy Manager at Arya Omnitalk Wireless Solutions Private Limited
The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved.
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IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank
The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved.
It's a bit expensive. They should work on bringing down the pricing if they can.
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Durga Ramesh
Technical Project Manager at HCL Technologies
I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future. Some solutions don't come with storage.
During deployment, they're providing different places for the .EXE files and whatever it is downloading. It would sometimes mess up. This could be adjusted so that it's easier to deploy without issue.
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Elliott Scott
CEO at Scott Solutions LLC
It would be nice if they were a little lighter in weight.
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IT Director of Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas
I was looking at the HPE Synergy. What I see there is it's the next evolution of that whole BladeSystem. It pretty much puts compute, it puts storage, and it puts memory all in one pool. It's being managed by the one management module and so it's basically the whole pool data center resource. It also gives the flexibility of utilizing it in a fully virtualized environment or, if you need a physical server, you can utilize a physical server as well. Then extend out to some of the older devices like the c7000 or something, can enter into that whole resource domain. That's compelling as well.
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reviewer1622238
Windows Instructor at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are very happy with what we have, but HPE is not going to continue with BladeSystem. It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly.
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Ehab Nafea
Infrastructure Architecture & Planning Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE has a new solution it's called Synergy. I believe it's the new generation of solutions. It has capability of sharing the storage. It has open blade servers within the same enclosure.
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Systems Engineering Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I haven't seen it lately, but I know with OneView, there are still some limitations. It was because the product roll-out last year was still kind of catching on and still kind of debugging, but I think once that gets some maturity and growth, I think that's going to be continued on the right track.
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IT Manager at Continental Currency Services
I believe there's a product called HPE OneView that I'm really interested in looking into. Right now we run off of iLO connections or we manage our servers through virtual connects. It would be nice to get them all unified into just one display and then monitor everything from there.
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System Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would especially like to see a hyperconverged solution from HPE. With technology becoming faster and faster, and everything going to the cloud, I think cyber convergence is very good.
I’m fine, you know. I think there is no need to improve it.
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Senior Real Time Architect at Thomson Reuters
The only thing we think is on the down side is that you can't push them anywhere near as hard as the pizza-box servers; the rack mounts. We knew this at the very start, but it is something that makes us not totally go down that route. We do have a parallel deployment using those for our more aggressive situations.
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Sr. Manager Enterprise Services at a venture capital & private equity firm with 501-1,000 employees
It'd come from a software standpoint - software support on the BladeSystem, particularly with Helion and OneView in that if you're using the Cisco fabric extenders instead of the HPE fabric extenders, there's a lot of functionality that you can't use. Because our network stack is Cisco, we can't do a lot of that automated provisioning of new blades because it's not supported. That's one thing that we'd really like to see HPE implement - true supportability of the Cisco fabric extenders.
The other thing is the support. With our initial purchase, we bought three chassis and maybe 15 or 20 blades. Out of that, we had probably a 20% failure rate within the first few weeks. It was really high and enough to make us concerned. We spent a lot of money on the chassis. We're married to them at this point since we don't want to throw the chassis away. The chassis were fine, but the blade servers themselves had a high failure rate, which didn't give us a lot of confidence.
Since then, everything's been fairly reliable, very few problems as of late, probably on the same frequency as we do with the rack mount servers. Whereas previously the rack mount servers never had a problem, Blades servers come with loads of problems. It could be completely anecdotal coincidence.
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Principal Systems Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
Java version dependence for its out-of-band management. This is also an issue for other vendors, as well.
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Kone Souleymane
System Engineer at CNCCI
HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage.
It's very difficult to have a representative give training. It would be helpful to provide some training.
In the next release of the solution, it would be a benefit to have hypervisor capabilities on the system.
If we could have a backup and a hypervisor built-in with all the capabilities for HPE BladeSystem it would be helpful.
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Abdarrhman Obied
Corporate IT Infrastructure Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
- Ability to connect storage bay to all servers inside the enclosure not only Adjacent server.
- simplified High Availability Configuration to connect the enclosure to different external switches.
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Technology Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
- Hardware management could be improved.
- Cisco UCS has a more universal approach. It treats the hardware as stateless and manages absolutely all configurations from the same console.
- HPE has an on-board administrator to manage hardware aspects and virtual connect to manage LAN and SAN connectivity between blades and the rest of the world.
- Firmware updates are complex. There are so many components and you need to account for the compatibility of all parts. Otherwise, you can have a blade that cannot start with the new firmware and then it takes extra time to solve the problem.
- HPE has a utility for firmware updates that tries to provide peace of mind. It takes all these variables into account.
it_user481857
Data Center Systems Engineer at Insight
Customers are always looking for more performance, just trying to get more out of them. I don't know whether they have a blade or whether, but it's a rackmount server, and they're just trying to get more horsepower out of them. Continue to make them more scalable inside the box in terms of CPU, memory and I/O etc. It's just, customers are always looking for more density.
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Sr. Systems Engineer at Cardinal Glass
I guess with its ease of use, as far as the configuration of the virtual switches, and things like that all need work. We just upgraded to 10 Gig on a couple of them, and the learning curve for me was a little tough on that.
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System Administrator at SNL Financial
I’m glad HP doesn’t do configuration wizards, because they make a lot of assumptions of what you’re trying to do today (only works if they know what your model is). Keep the cookbooks going, because they work a lot better.
One word of advice for UI: don’t let the web devs decide what features you need.
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IT Manager at AIMCo
I want to see a standardized interface for managing blade chassis when they’re not virtual connect. Also, I'd like to see a return to the program in which you can purchase different skews for your chassis needs. That was a great program, which they should bring back. I'm disappointed that the current purchase program isn't quicker.
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Nugroho Cahyo Riadmojo
IT Network And Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server. Because the blade chassis (C7000) has a 16 blade servers bay (slot), it will be better if we can mix the first generation (G1 Blade server) with the latest Gen (G9 Blade server). E.g.: G1 only can be mixed in same chassis with G8 (max), if we have a new G9 blade server, we need to eliminate the old blade server, or if you don’t want to get rid of the old server you should buy another chassis. The new chassis is so expensive.
So, it will be easier for scalability purposes, and a greater value for
a company with a limited budget, if HPE Blade System has a wider compatibility matrix range.
it_user567672
CTO at AFP
I would like to see lower consumption of electricity and there are some problems in our computer room regarding the cooling. The power supply and the power unit could, perhaps, be improved, but it's very stable is the main point.
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Sabrin Freedman Alexander
Lead Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- The web interface is Java based and we had issues with different version of Java. We sometimes need to host dedicated machines with old versions of Java just to run the web administration.
- The LCD panel holds minimal data about the overall BladeSystem and blade server health and error events.
- I would like to see an error reporting feature in the LCD Panel.
it_user469629
IT Engineering Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Alerting the management could be better. I think OneView is new, I actually used HP SIM a lot in my day as an administrator. Now I'm in management watching my engineers use OneView. It still seems like there is still some room for improvement on that.
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Director of Infrastructure & Service Management at Mansfield Oil Company
I would like to see, now that HP has acquired Aruba, all my HP devices connected.
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reviewer1517220
Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution could use better management capabilities. The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive.
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reviewer966441
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved.
Its price could also be lower.
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Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
There’s nothing that I don't already know is coming out.
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Senior Systems Engineer - Storage and Virtualization at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Most of the issues that I have found have been addressed inside OneView. OneView 3.0 will allows us to do live migration of the Virtual Connect domains, so there isn’t anything big to improve at the moment.
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Dara-Azartash
Information Technology Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult.
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reviewer281076
Director of Technology Services at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother. We can't pull the servers from the current Blade, over to the NonStop system because of the different connectors.
I feel that it is a waste of money. I invested in it and I can't port it over.
The back of the blade system from their older generations will not connect to the new chassis. You will need buy new servers to the NonStop chassis.
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Director - Data Centre Operations at MCAP
At the time, we were trying to learn the technologies while we were setting up the data center, and that's why we used professional services. We ended up having to collectively learn on the fly in setting up some of the new features we had. This was three years ago when we set up two new data centers and moved our operation out of an outsourced line of business.
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Co Founder at TaskPutty
I suppose new chips would be an improvement, but they do get new Intel chips every year. This provides better throughput on CPU workloads.
Additionally, our network is constantly getting saturated, so I would suggest also a faster network of fabrics as another improvement.
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Sr. System Admins at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to have a single console where we could manage multiple data centers. I'm expecting something like hardware visualization. I have different data centers where different BladeSystems are running.
Whenever there is an event, I need to get into that system individually and manage from different consoles. I would like to see a centralized console for BladeSystem management.
We have got multiple blade chassis, that are managed on an individual console. Having a centralized single console to manage all the chassis, would be easy for us to handle them in case of an event or for troubleshooting. For example, Cisco has UCS Director for managing multiple data center, similarly, if HPE can provide some centralized managing as well, then it will be great.
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Head Of Applications at Pentland Brands
I'm probably not the right person to provide any information, but I guess I would like to see monitoring, real-time monitoring of the performance of the estate. We do basic monitoring of our estate. I'm not sure how robust it is, whether it can see into the future and understand where there are faults occurring.
From an application point of view, I want to avoid redundancy as much as possible, and I want to avoid downtime. I want general performance. Anything that helps that situation would be best.
I haven’t rated it higher because of stability and monitoring capability.
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IT Manager for Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
There's some little nitty-picky things and we're still trying to figure out a couple of things in the background. For functionality and everything, it runs well.
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Head of Production Service Delivery at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
One way to improve would be in the monitoring and reporting. We get one report per server and it's ten pages long. But at the end, there's no aggregate showing the order of the infrastructure. So, I have no idea how large a percentage of my CPU is used overall in the infrastructure. I'd like reporting that takes into account all the servers.
There are also some tools missing. We started with the basics and moved up to more high-capacity resource management. The existing tools will help with this, but if we wanted to get more complex, we'll need some tools it just doesn't have yet.
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IT Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees
The HP BladeSystem has been proven to be the best in the market in terms of blade systems, moving with every generation and you can see that when firmware updates are released. Any lags/issues are always resolved and more features are added and enhanced.
The only missing piece that would be great to add to this converged solution is an integrated KVM system that comes inside the blade enclosure, that will give flexible and easy access to the different nodes in less time.
On the deployment aspect and especially when installing any OS through the On-board Administrator USB port, the installation is slow. I hope they can upgrade the port to USB 3.0 for faster access.
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IT System Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We expected more processing power, with more CPU cores and a greater number of cores per CPU.
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Windows Server Support at Nationwide
In the future, I'd like to see more manageability. They keep adding features which are nice, so I can’t think of anything else.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I believe they are ahead of the other vendors (IBM, Dell and Cisco). Probably what they can improve on are minor things -
- Registration of licenses, this includes iLO advanced and upgraded support. This requires you to log on with HP and activate the key that has been given to the server. Its just a convoluted process that I rather as a technical engineer not have to do.
- Access to updated drivers and firmware. They now require you to logon and have the device serial number to get to drivers. Even new devices requires this. If the device is 3 years old OK, but new devices just frustrates the customer and slows down deployments.
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reviewer1517220
Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The management side of this solution could be improved. In our case, it's managed via OneView — it's an appliance. It could be better, its interface doesn't feel 100% intuitive.
In addition, HPE tech support is very poor.
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Enrico Boseli
CTO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user238902
Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The Onboard Administrator (OA) is the heart of C7000 enclosure management, it integrates advanced health and monitoring to the point of even iLo launching through the OA to KVM a blade server that is not responsive. There are two OA modules, one active, the other passive.
HPE contacted us after identifying the serial number of our active OA module was in a critical recall list.
While all components are redundant including two Cisco Fabric Extenders (Fex) for Network Connectivity of the blade servers (Our config is 4 x 10 Gbe per Fabric Extender teamed with the second Fabric Extender through Virtual Port Channel). A single OA replacement caused 15 servers with VPC protection to be dropped off the network when the device was failed from active to passive; completely disrupting 200+ VMs and >2000 users; all when it was assured to failover gracefully.
If I was to physically disconnect all cables in one Fex, or even remove it from a blade enclosure it would operate fine, but for some reason, the bad OA module caused a network reset to occur which eliminated all redundancy on the link.
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http://www.netcraftsmen.com/ho...
it_user567867
Senior Director R&D IT Solutions at NXP Semiconductors
We would like to see faster processing and more memory.
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ICT Infrastructuur Architect at Isala
It could be improved in terms of management, in terms of uptime. When you do the firmware upgrades, it's not acceptable; we have downtime issues. It’s not good with that, but it's getting better and better.
We have been working with HPE BladeSystem C7000 since 2007. Until recently, the firmware updates on the connectivity modules (FC and Ethernet) and Virtual Connect could not be done without downtime. For an enterprise system, this is not acceptable. It is only since last year that we did the first online upgrades without any downtime.
it_user331413
Director at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
Number of supported VLANs on virtual connect technology limits the number of VLANs you can deploy in your network.
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Senior Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It provides a higher connectivity throughput with the new releases.
There is better integration with the third-party solutions and products.
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Datacentre Services Team Leader at NWG (Northumbrian Water Group)
We have a niggle with the iLO connection. Sometimes you can go from one PC to another and how the iLO reacts depends on the web browser setup. I'd like to see something like HTML5 setup for iLO, so you don't need to install any Java or any of the plug-ins; so it's completely universal.
It’s a great system, but it’s not perfect yet.
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Infrastructure Engineer at Wellcome Trust
There is nothing much to improve, so long as they carry on with the basics of user views and reliability. There have been steady improvements, but not drastic ones. We have seen steady improvements which have been good for us.
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Director of Information Systems at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
They probably already have a lot of the features introduced, I just don't know about them yet. I'm looking forward to using the Security Central console, which I know you do have to manage. It's a console to manage Aruba stuff, all your switches, ProCurve lines, blades, and chassis, all in one single pane of glass. I'll be able to look at all those components and how they're all working in and amongst each other.
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I'm relatively new to my role, so I've seen the BladeSystem up to a point. I've not seen anything in it that we don't already have.
However, the installation probably could have gone even quicker except that we realized we didn't have enough RAM with just 512Mb. In this regard, the installation and setup wasn't as straightforward as it could have been because of the database appliance involved.
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Senior Director, R&D at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see them support G10 blades on the C7000.
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reviewer1562568
Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's an old-fashioned technology now.
I'm not sure precisely what should be improved. I can't recall any missing features.
If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company.
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Senior Network Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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Senior Network Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers along with the new ones designed by HPE. The superior equipment does not allow this at the present time.
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Principal - Head of IT at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I'd love to see more collaboration between HP, Cisco, and Microsoft. Those are the big names to us in the market. I'd like to see them work together and not compete and be nasty.
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Simon Chaba
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm
Nothing that I can think of. We can always upgrade.
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Sr. Manager / Systems Specialist with 5,001-10,000 employees
- Storage capacity could be enhanced.
- Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced.
- OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler.
it_user630225
Manager Manufacturing Systems Infrastructure with 10,001+ employees
It's quite an old product already having it's successor HPE Synergy, which is in every aspect better than the c7000
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IT Operations Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Although we can manage from a single blade enclosure, the interface is usable for the CPU and memory aspects, the storage goes to our 3PAR, and that requires learning a different tool. We want to be able to use the same tool to provision storage from our blade management application.
Also, I'm concerned that the chassis will only last so long. New blades will comes out at some point and the chassis won't be compatible anymore. We can upgrade it, but it's easier to change the blades than it is to change the chassis.
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System Architect at KT Bank
The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture. This blocks interconnects so that they can be upgraded simultaneously.
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Senior Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver."
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IT Infrastructure Architect at Manitoba Blue Cross
The storage blades could be improved.
View full review »it_user526413
Senior UNIX Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Ability to zoom in on the blade system graphic
- Easy way of reporting all the blades at once
it_user567759
IT Executive with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're busy with phase 2 of the project. We classify the legacy landscape into simple, medium and complex applications. We've done the simple and medium. We're now going to tackle the complex and will make use of HPE professional services to see how we can either modernize the application code, for which we don't have the skill set anymore, or some subset of the applications.
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Infrastructure Expert at a local government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It needs to be easier to help build OpenStack solutions. It is also lacking container integration which would make adoption easier.
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reviewer1377360
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
What we want to improve would be to add more management capability for BladeSystem to be integrated with a cloud platform in a hybrid model.
Another point to improve. There are sometimes problems with laptops having issues in connecting with virtual connections to the database. The virtual connections can be improved.
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Desktop Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be nice if it could have better monitoring in terms of iLO and things like that. Some more interoperability between the different generations of blades.
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Active Directory Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It lacks a reboot service when the firmware breaks and needs upgrading. It also needs easier installation.
View full review »it_user362013
Solution Architect at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think some improvements could be made on the switching side. We just transitioned from the Cisco 3120 switches, which were at end-of-line, to the HP switches, but only because they were the only option for the HP blades. That gave us a bit of a minor challenge from a skills and networking team perspective.
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reviewer909156
VMware Software Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
HPE has told us that the c7000 will no longer be part of its portfolio, so I don't think so they will provide any new features. But if I had to say something it would be some features from the Synergy. They could go to a converged system with the c7000, so everything would be automatic in the system.
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System Integration Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
First of all, there should be a change in the disk bay. Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks.
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IT Infrastructure Projects Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We know that the blade centers probably have a limited life span now. It probably has five years left. Having invested in it, we would like to be able to keep it with new generations of servers, new generations of blades, faster processors, and so on.
The next real release of the solution has been replaced by Synergy in pretty much every scenario. It's the composable workspace, which is part of the environment in which you can actually make resources available at the touch of a hat; and automatically spin up more disks and more servers. This is currently available, but it's kind of like a next-generation product. I don’t think it will ever make it into a this-generation product, but it would be nice.
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Head Of IT Operations at Raiffeisen Bank - Bulgaria
We would like to see a more compact and more powerful solution.
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System Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Better pricing is always a plus.
View full review »it_user362250
ICT Infrastructure Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
There could be some improvements that have to do with CPU architecture, but that's not really an HP part. There's some virtualization we'd like to do that would need better CPU design. It is, however, a little bit difficult to move reams above BladeSystem.
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Network Manager at a local government with 51-200 employees
Blade servers are fading away. I shouldn't have bought these. Overall value is less than traditional rackmount servers. Scalability is limited; restricted by the chassis.
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Reviewer7839213
Scientist/Engineer 'F' with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the technology advancements, both the OEMs improve their products for best performance. I would also prefer additional improvements in thermal design and management of servers.
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Senior Director, Systems Software Support & Engineering at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see all-around fulfillment availability from top to bottom in terms of features. I guess the answer is higher availability.
View full review »it_user119829
Presales Supervisor for CME at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The management is great but there are other competitors that are implementing a better approach. Even HP's own latest products have this composable approach, so if there are any changes that I would like to see, they are within this particular area.
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Technical Manager with 501-1,000 employees
It would be better if the boot time during POST would be reduced.
View full review »it_user1020
Head of Data Center at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The only con I can think off with using HP ProLiant is the limited parts of the old servers. This is understandable though, as it is also not feasible for vendors to stock parts which might never be sold.There is also this thing about server management. Other vendors like Cisco has really taken leaps and bounds in overhauling server manageability and make it work. HP has had new products as of late, but I think they must have innovated sooner as they are now behind the competition in this regard.
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it_user753234
IT Governance at PeerSpot
I'm not thinking about what kind of new services we could have in the HPE C7000 because I have made the decision to go to HPE Synergy or Dynamic.
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Ahmad Hassan
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
- Management
- Monitoring
it_user234675
Storage specialist, Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is nearing the end of its development, so I think the question is a moot point. HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000.
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Chief Information Officer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'd like to see HP move more towards software-defined solutions because we're looking towards software-defined networks.
View full review »it_user360378
Lead Architect - Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The technical support itself is good, but you pay a lot of money for active services.
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Architect with 10,001+ employees
We are looking for a new product more inline with our goal. We are looking to switch because of the size formatting and the datacenter.
View full review »it_user674343
Systems Engineer-Business Technology at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see better scalability.
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IT Senior Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be nice if it could integrate with cloud systems.
View full review »it_user127383
Delivery Assurance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The profiles needs a complete rework, the way the profiles and networks are assigned to the blades isn’t user friendly and is often a hindrance
View full review »it_user115215
System Auditor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see improvement regarding scalability and deployment in the area of support. I simply mean seeing other fantastic features like built-in humidity or temperature sensors (especially for the market outside Europe and US). With technical support, I'm wondering if there could be some sort of seminar or webinar organised for users and prospective clients that may want to take a bake off on HPE BladeSystem.
View full review »it_user365946
IS Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scaling comes at a high cost, and it can be complex to set up. I'd also like to see how HP Synergy can improve the performance of BladeSystem.
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Godfred Adjei
IT Support at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
All around, it would be nice if the solution were cheaper.
View full review »it_user736917
IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology.
it_user567711
Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see a better UI for configuring the VDX switches.
View full review »NB
reviewer1109163
Senior Supervisor of Virtualisation & DevOps at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies. In the next release, I would like to see an improvement in the UI.
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Alfousseynou Bomou
Engineer at Platform Technique
Networking.
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System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the management software, sometimes we can't run a new Java version or Active X. We have to use an old OS such as Windows XP to get through this. Some features of the Blade still requires you to use a CLI to configure.
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reviewer1655484
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series.
In a future release, the backup system could improve but having a built-in storage module.
View full review »it_user366516
IT Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It needs to have backward compatibile firmware. Also, the enclosure for Generation 9 canot be paired with Generation 1 or 6 so it takes more effort to perform the migration.
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