HPE Integrity Reviews

We use the solution for our production environment.

The tool provides good performance and productivity. It is a good solution. We run our production applications on the product.

I installed it in our virtual machine. I have four chassis. I installed three chassis in our data center, and all the chassis were deployed in our disaster recovery site. I installed the virtual admission, and everything was fine without any issues. After purchasing it in 2022, after five months, I encountered a problem. There was a mezzanine card issue, and I replaced all the labeling cards.

This is a reliable server, and many applications are integrated there. I did not find any major challenges. Everything is running SponsoredLinX. HP is a good product.

What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are. Compared to other options, HPE Integrity is straightforward, making it less complicated to manage.

In terms of improvement, the operating system development is slow, making it hard to keep up with modern tech and integrate with third-party products. Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365. This means if you are using HPE, you might face challenges connecting to the cloud and need to rely more on on-premises servers. Also, the support is lacking in some third-party products, limiting your options. 

We use this solution with Blade servers and another application.

It is very fast and easy to use.

The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users. Regarding the backup the solution provides, I can say that the integrity the tool provides to its users is very high. We use the servers from HPE in our company during DR scenarios, and we have observed that they perform well since they are ready to respond to any DR scenarios quickly. With the storage system, uptime, availability, and robustness, our company benefits from HPE when considering the physical side of things and the integrity of the data.

HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication. HPE Integrity has the strength and the robustness, but they are not abreast with the latest developments as much as I see with IBM or Dell. HPE Integrity is not strong regarding DR readiness, archiving, speed of backup, and replication. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement of the solution.

The solution's technical support team needs to improve their speed of response to customer issues.

In the future, I want to see the solution enable its users to provision servers quickly. Generally, a person should be able to provision the servers in 15 minutes. I want to see an enhanced snapshot technology in the tool so that a person can have a quicker file system snapshot. I also want to see replication in the tool and more tuning for replication to happen quicker on any available bandwidth and networks. I want to see the tool have the ability to rapidly copy files from server to server in the same LAN environment. I want the system to leverage memory and I/O throughput to enhance features of the tool, like copying, archiving, and snapshots. If you have to provision a new server, you should be able to provision one as fast as possible, meaning it should be faster than its current speed. As too much downtime is required for the extension of mount points and maintenance, I want to see more things done while the systems are up and running.

The product's most valuable features are troubleshooting and monitoring.

HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability. They should release smaller versions for specific applications or usage.

We've been with Superdome since Superdome 1 and then we used Superdome 2. We are a large service provider for the Indian region, Northern part of South America and Central America, around the SAP Ecosystem. So all our infrastructure is Hewlett-Packard, we've been a platinum partner for Hewlett-Packard since 1991, so it's been a 25 year relationship. On top of all the infrastructure we have SAP customers - customers from SAP Ecosystem running SAP in different flavors. The customers that require high availability are those that are running on the Superdome 2. We've had a magnificent experience reliable, trustable, confident infrastructure. Unfortunately, Superdome on top of a Itanium processor is no longer supported. We're looking into Superdome X, but we're currently very happy and our customers are happy. We've had one hardware failure within 10 years, which is almost 100% availability in the platform.

Some of our customers are going to miss Superdome on HP-UX. We're moving them to some Superdome X, some we will move to the DL580 platform, running SAP HANA, but as a summary, I would say it's been the best high availability platform that HP has produced, at least that we have been able to use and forward to our customers with the highest service level availability.

As a service provider, our end customers have looked into us as the company to rely on to manage their core business. So Superdome essentially as the high end platform in the Integrity line has been the way we have given our customers the best platform to run the core business because they're not running a simple payroll, or something like that. It's the core business, all the invoicing, everything around what moves their business and makes their business operate. So, Superdome has been there for a while. Now it's going to be Superdome X, we hope we can move to that Intel based platform, but for the time it's on top of a Itanium, we have to say congratulations HP because it's been the best platform we ever ran.

HPE Integrity is a mission-critical server, and we are using it for our SAP. We require zero downtime. This is where usually Superdomes are used, for example in banks or air traffic control, where the downtime requirement is absolute zero.

The virtualization of HPE Integrity could be simplified. We have discussed this issue with HPE and hopefully, they will have an update.