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HPE BladeSystem pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.3 out of 5

140 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

HPE BladeSystem is known for high scalability, ease of management, and excellent connectivity, making it a robust choice for data centers. It offers reduced cabling and minimal space usage, ensuring stability with low downtimes. However, limited firmware compatibility, technical support delays, and management complexities can be challenges. Disk failures causing bay removal disruptions and issues with spare part availability also impact its efficiency.

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PROS

HPE BladeSystem offers excellent scalability, allowing easy addition of enclosures for expansion.

The system's design significantly reduces datacenter space usage, enhancing cooling and power efficiency.

One of the standout features is its ease of management using OneView, ensuring streamlined maintenance and upgrades.

The modularity and integration capabilities of HPE BladeSystem provide high performance and energy savings.

The robust connectivity and reliability of the system ensure high availability with minimal downtime over the years.

CONS

HPE BladeSystem has limited scalability, allowing only 16 servers per chassis.

A wider firmware compatibility is needed for HPE BladeSystem from the oldest to the newest blade server.

Technical support and response time require significant improvement.

Spare parts availability for HPE BladeSystem is challenging, with difficulties in procuring replacements.

HPE BladeSystem has pricing that is perceived as high compared to competitors.

HPE BladeSystem Pros review quotes

IT Director of Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas

Jun 28, 2016

The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs.

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Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2016

When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView.

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Nugroho Cahyo Riadmojo

IT Network And Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Aug 6, 2018

I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches.

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Storage specialist, Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 1, 2017

It also has a pretty solid design and management.

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Senior Network Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 1, 2017

It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration.

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System Integration Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 4, 2017

The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it.

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IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 22, 2017

We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures.

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Architect with 10,001+ employees

Dec 5, 2017

No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure.

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Sr. Manager / Systems Specialist with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 26, 2017

Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain.

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VMware Software Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 1, 2018

They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers.

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HPE BladeSystem Cons review quotes

IT Director of Technology at Resorts World Las Vegas

Jun 28, 2016

Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem.

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Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2016

I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances.

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Nugroho Cahyo Riadmojo

IT Network And Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Aug 6, 2018

This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server.

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Storage specialist, Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 1, 2017

HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000.

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Senior Network Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 1, 2017

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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System Integration Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 4, 2017

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 Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 22, 2017

Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology.

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Architect with 10,001+ employees

Dec 5, 2017

It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes.

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Sr. Manager / Systems Specialist with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 26, 2017

Storage capacity could be enhanced.

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VMware Software Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 1, 2018

The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic.

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