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Sr. System Administrator at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
Oct 10, 2016
Product version discussed: HS21 and HS22
It offers central management of all blade servers and performance.

What is most valuable?

Central management of all blade servers and performance: It helps us to access blade servers remotely even at boot time, as well, when we can access the BIOS setup remotely. Other than that, we can restart and shut down blade servers from a single console.

What needs improvement?

The blade center and blade server’s hardware firmware upgrade should be easy.

The hardware firmware upgrade option of blade servers and chassis should include the blade center admin console itself.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
Aug 29, 2016
The form factor is good for medium-level application hosting.

What is most valuable?

The form factor is good for medium-level application hosting and does not take up too much space in the DC.

How has it helped my organization?

  • Smaller footprint in DC
  • Easy scalability
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Manager of IT at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
    Jan 28, 2013
    Meets rigorus challenges however requires fair amount invesment

    I believe that blade servers have become popular building blocks for enabling converged data centers – and, they also have their own idiosyncrasies.

    Blade solutions provide increased server density, better power and cooling efficiency and more flexible management functions when compared with standalone servers. They require a fair bit of investment, which is why they aren’t a good choice if you only need to deploy a couple of servers.

    I have personally built and used numerous server types and brands. I’ve deployed them in land based facilities across the globe and on occasion even aboard ship – which is a huge challenge in itself.

    In my line of work speed is critical to mission success and it’s extremely important that equipment be easy to install, compatible with the existing environment… simply put expeditionary.

    The one brand that has consistently met the rigorous challenges of global deployment and mastered the most demanding workloads has been the IBM power blade solutions.

    IBM blade solutions save you time and trouble. Here's how:

    •Unlike other vendors, IBM deliver power blades and chassis preassembled. You don't spend hours installing processors, memory and drives.

    •You can rack an entire integrated chassis in the time it takes to rack a traditional 1U rack server.

    •When you need to add additional blade servers, they slide right in.

    •IBM’s BladeCenter® family technology ties Media Access Control (MAC) and World Wide Name (WWN) addresses to blade slots — not to servers or switch ports — so reconfiguring your setup is as simple as sliding a blade out of a slot and replacing it with another.

    And when needed, their flexible deployment services put IBM expertise and manpower at your fingertips.

    Moving beyond conventional server technology to a fresh approach at solving customer problems IBM, recently announced a new family of solutions called PureSystems. IBM calls this an “expert integrated solution”; it fits within the converged infrastructure environment.

    While IBM offers competitive blade server and chassis offerings, it’s almost certain that “PureSystems” will lead the charged toward the converged infrastructure market; that’s my opinion.

    *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    System X & P / Blade / Storage / SAN Hardware and Software Support at GEOCOM Uruguay S.A.
    Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
    Jul 3, 2017
    Total redundancy in all its components: power, cooling, communications, fiber, administration and blades. One point of management.

    What is most valuable?

    The features of this product that I value most are:

    • A datacenter in 8U; you can accommodate 14 servers in a BladeCenter H chassis.
    • Total redundancy in all its components: power, cooling, communications, fiber, administration and blades
    • Stacking features, you can configure several BladeCenters to have redundancy
    • Excellent support in case of any failure (and I am not saying this because I worked for IBM)
    • One point of management
    • The ability to combine Intel, AMD, and POWER blades

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using, installing, and implementing this solution for eight years.

    *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    Head of Data Center at a tech company with 51-200 employees
    Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
    Nov 21, 2012
    Great value for money but be sure to have all the right components to prevent data loss if using the disk storage system.

    What is most valuable?

    I recommended the purchase of an IBM BladeCenter S Chassis with four HS 22 Blade Servers and 1 Disk storage system. I came up with the recommendation after reviewing other blade servers at that time. The other option was an HP C3000 with BL460 blade servers. What sold me with the BladeCenter S was the built-in disk storage system. For me, this is a great feature as you technically have a direct-attached disk storage system on the blade system itself. This for me was the better option than the HP C3000, as there is no need any more to buy a separate disk storage system.

    What needs improvement?

    It was quite unfortunate that I lost data while using this blade server. There were a lot of factors, but I believe it should not have happened. I base this from the fact that we haven't lost any data from our HP C3000 enclosure and BL460 blade servers. One of the main things that I believe led to the data loss was the poor eco-system of vendors and knowledgeable solution providers for IBM in our part of the country. The vendor that sold us was just box-pushing the product without adequate knowledge in providing a solution that should not loose any data. I say this because we have another blade system from Cisco and it just works. We have a very knowledgeable system integrator and they provide excellent support. I just wish IBM here would also do the same.Overall, the product has great value for money. Under the right circumstances, I would definitely recommend this product. You should select a vendor that is knowledgeable about the solution and offer all the necessary components to protect the disk storage system from catastrophic data loss.
    *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    Network Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
    Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
    Jul 15, 2012
    IBM BladeCenter HS22 is ideal for midsize businesses and allows you to scale your data center

    What is most valuable?

    BladeCenter HS22 provides great performance and reliability, with two Intel Xeon 5600 (3.60 GHz) processors and 12 VLP DDR-3 memory DIMMs, with expansion capability of 192 GB.HS22 is designed to host mainstream business applications and virtualization. Deployment and customization is quick and easy with the advantage of UEFI based tools.HS22 has a special mechanical design to cool the blade in challenging circumstances. Exceptional power management capabilities are provided with integrated power management tools like “IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager.”Less expensive than most of the Blade Servers available in this configuration.

    What needs improvement?

    Very stable servers; so far have not found any inconsistencies.
    *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    CIO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
    Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
      Oct 31, 2015
      Product version discussed: HS21, HS22, HS22V and HS23
      We're able to use them for both VMware clusters and clusters of database servers with the same architecture as our hardware configuration.

      What is most valuable?

      • Reliability
      • Possibility to expand

      How has it helped my organization?

      We're able to use them for both VMware clusters and clusters of database servers with the same architecture as our hardware configuration.

      *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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      Design and Develpement Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
      Verified user of Lenovo Blade Servers [EOL]
      Mar 8, 2017
      Product version discussed: HS23
      We use it as a virtualization server with ESX. We provide telecom services on it.

      What is most valuable?

      • FCoE, CPU, and RAM capacity: Requires a low cost for passive jobs in the data center
      • Small rack space: With only 11 units, we can have about 1THz CPU and 3.5 TB memory

      How has it helped my organization?

      We use it as a virtualization server with ESX. We provide telecom services on it.

      *Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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