HPE Superdome X Reviews

It is meant for mission-critical applications. It allows you to partition your blades, basically, and also combine multiple blades together, to increase the capacity and efficiency of the blades. It's very easy to use, because we already have an older version, called c7000 series. Superdome is basically an upscale, and we have the c7000. It's very easy to use.

We can use it for development, production, and a the same time, using different blades. All in one inclusion.

I know HPE has another product, called Synergy, which is similar to Superdome, but I would think, if they can add maybe storage, even if it's a mini-set of storage to each, which can be used externally, they should do it.

So far it's very stable. It's a very stable product, and I think it's going to go a long way.

It's very scalable. You can change the blades, you can increase the capacity of it. You can operate the blades and the CPU. Even though it's usable with v2, v3, you can upgrade it to v4 Intel.

I've not really used technical support for Superdome, but HPE technical support is always very good.

Previously, we had a c7000, which we currently use also, which we have also. That's why we moved up to Superdome, because it's been a very good product.

It's very straightforward. Being the fact that I had experience with c7000, and that's what made it so straightforward. It's very similar to c7000, so doing that, it's pretty straightforward.

We have other products that looks similar to Superdome, from IBM. IBM Flex Chassis. We chose HPE because of our experience with c7000.

I would tell you that if you are looking for a product that can be used by multiple groups especially multiple groups with one point of administration, Superdome is very good. You have eight blades inside that can be used by multiple groups. Even if you want to partition one of the blades for production, it's always available. You have one central point of administration, as a whole. It's a very good product.

We just recently deployed it. We like the flexibility with the platform and our ability to stretch it across a lot of different areas of the company and product lines. For us it's ability to easily write, scale up and down remains to be seen.

There's a big upfront investment, but the total cost of ownership should be cheaper over the long term.

It's been stable, but again it's not yet in production.

Nothing is in production yet, we just deployed it four weeks ago. We're still in the setup phase. It will go in production in the next coming month.

We've used IBM and Dell in various phases of our history in our Blade Server center. Nothing on the same scale as Superdome.

It's relatively OK, but setup is always painful. I'm a CIO so I have a lot of people that work for me. The ones in the data center, I'm sure they hit some hurdles, they always do, but they made it work. They seemed to work through it, so at the end of the day it got done within the time frame.

HPE came in and set it up for us in our data centers.

We run a lot of environments for various products, some on OpenStacks, some on VMware, some on Windows, some on CentOS. We were looking for something that could scale and grow as we need it to across different product lines. We looked at traditional BladeCenters, and although this was a bigger investment upfront, over the longer term we felt it would scale and grow with us better.

There's a different architecture behind it from a BladeSystem. It's unique in that regard, that's why we chose it.

The most valuable feature for us is the great performance from the nPar hard partitions. This is an option that we really like. It's easy to extend, is stable, and very robust.

Our business is growing and we're getting more and more international. It's easy for us to extend a blade without any other new parts because the chassis is already there. And, of course, with the high performance, it's able to handle more and more users from our growing organization. This is where Superdome X's performance really shines.

Looking back to our original purchase of Superdome X, we bought the smallest model. Now, the newer models have more flexibility and power, and we're a little upset at ourselves that we didn't purchase the next level model. So, based on the model that we do have, I'd like more flexibility as we're only able to extend one blade for one to five kilobytes. Needless to say, this is getting too small for us.

It deploys without issues.

We had an old Superdome 2 before and the stability was quite great. Of course, stability is one of the most important parts of our business as it's the heart of our system. If this is down, the whole fiber group is down. We need 99.9% reliability. It's been running for a year now, and it has been working perfectly.

We've utilized the nPar hard partitions, and we now have a three-part Superdome in order to scale.

Technical support is great.

We made initial configurations to it since we got one of the first Superdome X machines in Europe. The initial setup went smoothly.

We always look at different vendors, but we've had very good experiences with HP and their robust, comprehensive offerings. We looked at Dell and IBM, but we're sticking with HP.

If you're looking for a solution where you need a lot of workload and power, it's a great solution. It wasn't so mature when we purchased it originally, but the later models are, and I highly recommend them.