In terms of improvement, the operating system development is slow, making it hard to keep up with modern tech and integrate with third-party products. Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365. This means if you are using HPE, you might face challenges connecting to the cloud and need to rely more on on-premises servers. Also, the support is lacking in some third-party products, limiting your options. 

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HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication. HPE Integrity has the strength and the robustness, but they are not abreast with the latest developments as much as I see with IBM or Dell. HPE Integrity is not strong regarding DR readiness, archiving, speed of backup, and replication. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement of the solution.

The solution's technical support team needs to improve their speed of response to customer issues.

In the future, I want to see the solution enable its users to provision servers quickly. Generally, a person should be able to provision the servers in 15 minutes. I want to see an enhanced snapshot technology in the tool so that a person can have a quicker file system snapshot. I also want to see replication in the tool and more tuning for replication to happen quicker on any available bandwidth and networks. I want to see the tool have the ability to rapidly copy files from server to server in the same LAN environment. I want the system to leverage memory and I/O throughput to enhance features of the tool, like copying, archiving, and snapshots. If you have to provision a new server, you should be able to provision one as fast as possible, meaning it should be faster than its current speed. As too much downtime is required for the extension of mount points and maintenance, I want to see more things done while the systems are up and running.

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HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability. They should release smaller versions for specific applications or usage.

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We have only just used this solution for a small period of time, it is difficult to fully assess it. We need more time to learn and know all of its components.

The monitoring is an area that needs some improvement.

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The virtualization of HPE Integrity could be simplified. We have discussed this issue with HPE and hopefully, they will have an update.

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The manageability must be improved. Regular management is a little complex.

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It is old technology, so there is not much growth that we can do on it now. If we need to add more, we have already reached the maximum on that Superdome, plus it's huge. It takes a lot of space in the data center power. So it's not from a power perspective, from a space perspective. It's an old technology.

We are in a much more advanced environment, and now we look at things differently. The power consumption of it, the space that it takes, all of that, that's something that lowers the rating.

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It's hard to say in terms of improvement, I mean. With the announcement last year from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise that they are no longer supporting a Itanium 2 processors, which means HP-UX is going to die soon in a couple of years. Definitely we need to move to Superdome X, or at least think about moving customers to the Superdome X product line. We expect the same we have expected always - a reliable high availability platform with almost 100% if not more. Well that's impossible, but we can talk about 100% up time, and that's what we're expecting from the line, what we have received for the couple of years, 10 years before we used it, we expect it to be improved or at least the same thing.

Since we're in the SAP Ecosystem, one thing that we have there that's not very comfortable for our customers is the SAP HANA platform only runs on Linux operating system. So it will be great to see the HANA platform, HANA database running on top of Windows, which would be on top of Superdome X. I don't know if it's far away, but right now we have a restriction which is thqt we only have HANA on top of Linux. Either SUSE or Red Hat. It would be interesting to see if in the future we could have a pyramid where you have the Superdome X as a hardware, and on top of it you have an operating system like Windows, and on top of it you have HANA. That would be like an interesting dream to approach in the future.

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I don't know if Integrity will survive too much because if the Itanium processors are not going to be supportive anymore, I think in the midterm (4 or 5 years), Integrity's going to be replaced by another product line, or HP's going to be moving in more product lines, Plaza Polo and Moonstruck and all the initiatives, but according to what I know Integrity lined with the Itanium 2 processors and HP-UX is coming to an end. That's what I know.

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HPE Integrity is a pain. HPE hasn't put much work into developing the solution in the past few years because it will be discontinued soon.

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The last problem we had with VSC VMs was no support for Cisco PVLAN. That was a bit of an issue for us 18 months ago. But I think it supports PVLAN now. But, we're moving to x86. We are still deploying OpenVMS on Integrity servers. We've got a big legacy service that was written in-house in OpenVMS and it's one of those things that everybody's scared to touch. We're currently migrating to new Integrity stuff for that legacy service. All the new stuff coming in is x86.

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We're moving away from Integrity as it's more pricey than the Intels.

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The quantity of the processor from Integrity, because at this moment there's a limit. We just provide 32 cores, and we are thinking of increasing the number of cores which is not possible in the current devices.

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I would like to see a GUI interface to mange resources and deploy new servers. The current method requires a lot of hands on with a lot of check and recheck. SAN storage lun assignment is lost on the guest side without running commands on the master server and the guest to extrapolate which physical luns are assigned to which file system. View full review »

It's quite expensive, so we're considering moving some services to Linux services.

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Intel should announce the product roadmap or HPE should announce HP-UX for Intel X86_64 (HP-UX for Superdome X).

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Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe. Secondly, there should be some initiative regarding bias of Oracle towards HP integrity servers.

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