Name: Supermicro SuperBlade
Rating: 7 (1 reviews)
Author: Supermicro

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Rack Servers

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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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Blade Servers

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Lenovo Flex System Blade Servers

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Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in 2017. The enterprise flash array product line now goes by the name HPE Nimble Storage.

HPE Nimble Storage

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Flash Array Performance

Flash Array Integration

Data Compression

Non-Intrusive Upgrades

Simplicity

Power Savings

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Density-Optimized Servers

HPE Apollo Server Systems are scalable high density servers that are optimized for Big Data Analytics, deep learning, and other robust workloads.. Higher performance, very substantial network bandwidth, and rack-level infrastructure (shared infrastructure chassis) are some of its key features.

HPE Apollo Server Systems

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A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.

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Virtual machine automated provisioning

Management console

Live virtual machine backup

Live virtual machine migration

Hypervisor-level security

VMware by Broadcom

SuperBlade is a high density x86 Multi-Node Server for Enterprise Cloud, HPC Applications, from Supermicro. They are available in 8U, 6U and 4U enclosures with hot-swap NVMe support, with air or direct liquid cooling.

Supermicro SuperBlade

A blade server is a modular, configurable server requiring a blade enclosure or chassis (which performs additional computing functions) structured to increase power and cooling efficiency and take up less physical space without sacrificing computing power.

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We use supermicro servers at our main datacenter in Florida. We have our core platform running over 400+ of these servers, including our private cloud. We have a lot of applications running, from basic sites, to more complex applications.

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Pros and Cons

Good IPMI management, detailed information
Their Redfish API is also a good tool to configure/retrieve information from the servers, good for scalability
Documentation Online for new updates is up to date (BIOS/FW)

Things done well

Their support could be better, it is not the fastest we've got in touch with
We have seen strange behaviour on some of their servers, it's better to check if the OS you will be running is supported on their support matrix first

Things done poorly

Supermicro may be well suited if what you will be deploying on the servers is supported, because if you don't, you may have no support at all. In our case, we have had some hardware problems where the support is not efficient compared to other experiences we had (HP, DELL). On the other hand, their servers price is quite good, so it's a win win if you are looking for better prices than other vendors.

Their price has allowed us to save money when buying servers on bulk

Return on Investment

The supermicro superblade servers are performing really well on our infrastructure, we are running a broad set of applications: voip, JAVA, linux, windows, hypervisors, etc. They are easy to install and configure and the price is a winning situation.

On the other hand, The support is not so good, HP and DELL are stronger in this point. If you get any failures on your systems, they will replace them immediately, but supermicro will ask for a lot of information on the case before handing out replacement hardware, which makes it slow.

Alternatives

My experience with the support was not that good, it always takes a lot of time to get somewhere when raising a support case. I gave it a 6 because I think they have room for improvement here, It could be good if they would act quicker and send in replacements for faulty hardware.

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Supermicro SuperBlade

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Good hardware at a good price

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