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User-Friendly Interface: Many users have found the system to be user-friendly and easy to manage, with simple settings and management that …
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What is HPE BladeSystem?
HPE BladeSystem is a brand of blade server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. HPE blades include the ProLiant BL series and the ProLiant WS series.
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User-Friendly Interface: Many users have found the system to be user-friendly and easy to manage, with simple settings and management that simplify tasks. They appreciate the intuitive design and straightforward controls that make it effortless for them to navigate through the system.
Scalability: Several reviewers have praised the scalability of the solution, noting that it allows for the easy expansion of resources and the ability to fit multiple servers into a standard 19-inch rack. This flexibility in scaling up or down provides users with the freedom to adapt their infrastructure according to their evolving needs.
High Degree of Redundancy: The high degree of redundancy provided by the system has been appreciated by users, as it ensures the reliability and availability of hardware resources. With redundant components and failover mechanisms in place, customers can rely on uninterrupted operations even in case of hardware failures.
Buggy Management Console: Some users have experienced bugs in the management console, which can be frustrating and impact their ability to efficiently manage the system. They have reported encountering issues with the functionality and reliability of the console.
Limited Configuration Methods: Users feel that the configuration methods are limited to only web GUI and SSH command line, which restricts their flexibility and may not cater to all user preferences. This limitation hampers their ability to configure the system according to their specific requirements.
Outdated Virtual Connect Web GUI: The virtual connect web GUI still uses flash, which is seen as somewhat dated by users who would prefer a more modern interface. They believe that an updated web GUI using newer technologies would enhance usability and provide a better user experience.
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February 22, 2022
HPE BladeSystem - Great Solution
We mainly use it to support a virtualized environment, in addition to database services that support part of the corporation's systems. The redundant infrastructure serving both the power and the cooling and communication parts ensures a stable environment as long as the basic installation requirements are followed. The flexibility of the communication environment with FCoE, allowing the subdivision of physical interfaces into logical ones, allows wide and secure connections.
- Ability to maintain an environment with a high degree of redundancy.
- Simplicity in settings and management are great facilitators in everyday life.
- By maintaining an environment with high availability, it guarantees significant security of processes and systems in terms of infrastructure.
- Firmware update process could be better
- Lack of management reports
- Lack of a dashboard centralizing status and performance
- Redundancy
- Maintenance of a centralized processing environment.
- Single infrastructure
- Flexibility
- Excellent ROI due to the durability of the equipment.
- Flexibility in server configuration
- The lack of management reports is a negative point.
Our use of HPE BladeSystem goes back a long way. Previously we had a solution of IBM blades, however, it is not very comparable in terms of time. We recently acquired the HPE Synergy solution, which is essentially an evolution of the HPE BladeSystem. Market solutions such as DELL were seen in institutional presentations but were not adopted, both for the satisfaction of the HPE product and due to the public service procurement processes, but it seems to me that they should also be considered for acquisitions of the same size.
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Approximately 15 analysts make use of the HPE BladeSystem environment for management, monitoring, and configuration. As for users of applications supported by HPE BladeSystem, the entire institution uses it, around 2000 people. The general use occurs from e-mail applications like several other corporate web applications or even legacy systems or relational databases.
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A team of approximately 15 support analysts attend to requests and perform the process of configuring, maintaining, and monitoring the HPE BladeSystem environment. Along with the traditional On-Board tool, we also make use of OneView for detailing and settings. The number of analysts to monitor the environment is related to the number of environments provided by the corporation and thus does not indicate complexity, but rather service flexibility.
- Virtualized environment
- Corporate e-mail
- Relational databases
- File servers
- The acquisition of HPE BladeSystem was already closely linked to the virtualization process that the institution intended to carry out, it was therefore the justification and the large implementation of modernization established.
- Establishment of database clusters.
- New applications and tools in general were added over time.
- WEB Applications.
- Expansion of database use
- We understand that the flexibility of the environment allows for virtually any new implementation, especially if you consider using Synergy as a continuation of the HPE BladeSystem.
March 14, 2021
HPE BladeSystem: Used for Almost 10 Years
HPE BladeSystem is being used as our primary server platform for all production services in our organization. It has been employed since Gen1 and has been used for its ability to virtualize what used to be very manual cabling, networking, and server management. Blades come in a variety of configurations and capabilities to fit the business need. We're using BL360s in a c7000 chassis with FlexFabric 10Gbps ports for Ethernet and SAN. This is a basic configuration that allows us to run a dense VM environment with minimal external cabling and networking and complete remote management.
- Variety of server configurations
- Complete remotely managed server hardware, networking, connectivity, and monitoring.
- Repeatable configurations
- Configuration methods: Only Web GUI and SSH command line.
- Virtual Connect web GUI still uses flash :(
- Bay-to-server-to-card hardware "mapping" is kind of confusing at first.
- Less hardware management (racking, cabling, etc.).
- Less hardware (cabling, ports, switches, etc.)
- Remote server management (power on, networking, configuring, etc.)
We tested Cisco UCS in its early days, so this might be a bit of an old comparison, but UCS had the promise of being very configurable, with templates for everything and automatable for just about every task. However, even working with a Cisco engineer for weeks, we could not get a basic setup to work for us. Although there is a small learning curve with HPE BladeSystem, it has served us faithfully for almost 10 years.