HPE OneView Reviews

It provides insight for management.

I would like it to be a little more optimized for some performance enhancements.

The stability is fair.

Scalability is there. It could use a little help, but it's good. As it scales out, it's a little more cumbersome to manage.

Technical support is top notch.

We did not have a previous solution. We found out about this solution through a partner. He brought it to us and said, "Hey, you know, this might be something you want to consider." When selecting vendors, they have to be stable. HPE is pretty good.

Our installations have been straightforward.

Get a good partner.

Valuable to us is the ease of use. It is just so straightforward. It's very, very simple. The dashboard and the way to navigate is just very, very simple.

The whole control panel is all right there and anything you need to do for those servers is in one spot. From deploying a whole new operating system, adding new servers on the fly, if needed, and adding users.

There is no way currently to manage the onboard storage from the servers through the OneView application. You've got to go to the actual server and do it there. That was a little bit disappointing, I guess.

It is very stable. No problems.

Scalability is fantastic. That's why we got it.

We have not used the technical support yet.

The initial setup was absolutely straightforward. Very simple.

We evaluated all of them. We had many recommendations from many companies. We just thought that we made the best decision with HP, the Synergy and the OneView.

They give great service, and it's a great product, at a good price. Those would be the big three.

I don't know. Look at all the other vendors and do your due diligence and I think you'll find that this is a great solution.

I think ease of use is the most valuable feature. It saves us a huge amount of time. Normally, when we go and add a VLAN, we have to do it in a per-enclosure and per-blade basis. But when we use OneView, we can create one trunk and we can push it to all of the blades and the enclosures, and that saves us a huge amount of time.

Having one pane of glass is another benefit. We’ve got an entire blade system from one pane of glass. We’re able to see any alerts or any issues from there.

It has just saved us a huge amount of time, which lets us look at other things, more productive things.

There is room for improvement, especially with the speed of things. If we push a profile out, it takes several minutes; if we could improve the speed of pushing out a profile.

I think we want to get a 3PAR integrated with OneView and see what we can do with that. That's our next target.

We haven't had any issues with it. We have only had it for a few months now, but we haven't had any issues. It works fine.

I think the only problem we have is when we move an enclosure we've already got that hasn't got OneView. That takes a bit of planning. We have to empty that enclosure and then add it in. There is a bit of work to do, but anything new goes straight in. It's not a problem.

Rather than just import it into OneView – apparently it loses all the settings that we've got – we'll empty that enclosure, pop the blades into another enclosure, and then import that into OneView. Then, we move everything back after we've done that.

I don't think we have used technical support for OneView.

Before OneView, we would just log on to the onboard administrator (OA) and the virtual connects (VCs) directly.

I think we only looked at OneView. We knew what we wanted to do.

The most important criteria to me when choosing a vendor and a product are customer references, how have other people have found it. Price is always an important one as well.

I'm not sure what the other competitors are out there, to be perfectly honest. It works fine for us. As I’ve mentioned, it saves us a huge amount of time whenever we are setting up new systems. I recommend it for infrastructure monitoring.

Monitoring of services and networks. The performance has been pretty good.

It provides a single view of all the systems.

• Comprehensive dashboard
• Ease of use

I would like to see them expand into other cloud platforms, non-HPE platforms.

It's pretty stable.

So far, it has been scalable for us.

Technical support is pretty good. Time of response is good.

We are an HPE shop so we didn't look around much.

Setup was straightforward.

My most important criteria when selecting a vendor are

• support
• scalability
• stability - the uptime has to be close to 99.99 percent.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10 because it's stable, it works.

The ease of installation and use help you to come up with a turnkey solution as quickly as possible. For people who are not fully technical, the comprehensive dashboard is useful.

Monetary hardware. It is performing very well.

Cost. You can streamline and deploy services faster.

Deploying faster new virtual services. 

There was a feature called HPE cloud manager, but now it is owned by Micro Focus. HPE should make a cloud optimizer again.

The stability is very good. I have never had an issue with it over the three years that I have been using it.

Scalability is great.

Technical support performs well. I have never had an issue with them.

Use it. It is free.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: stability and technical support.

You can work in Spanish if you wish.

I would like OneView to support VMware. Our infrastructure is 78% VMware.

It is very stable.

It is very scalable.

It is very stable.

We did not have a different solution.

We looked at VMware Operations Manager, Dell Management, System Center Configuration Manager, and others.

The ease of use. It is easy to move things forward. Provides ease of a single interface to manage multiple products.

Manages multiple products from one point. There is one pane of glass, which is always good when you're dealing with a lot of architecture.

Active director integration.

Stability is very good.

Scalability is very good.

I haven't used them yet.

We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because of the lifecycle. We used to work with HPE’s Insight. When selecting a vendor, I look for reliability.

The initial setup was straightforward.

I definitely recommend OneView. If you are an HPE shop, it's the way of the future. It's the single pane of glass. Products are looking the same. You have to move forward into that world.

It's a product with which you can automate, manage, and monitor your devices.

It improves our productivity, because we can use OneView for more than just servers. We can use it for storage on some of the networks as well. So it's quite good.

With every new version, new devices are supported in OneView, but we are still missing support for some HPE products. I hope they will be supported soon.

It's quite stable. There’s been no down time.

It's easy to scale, but we are not a huge company. We're not GE.

We haven't been using technical support. We have not had any issues.

We were using Insight Manager, which was the product before OneView's conception. Therefore, we heard about OneView, and started using it instead.

Initial setup was quite straightforward.

We were not really looking at other vendors, because OneView is for HPE products. You couldn't use another product. We want OneView because we want to automate things and to manage our systems easier.

It should be easy to use and easy to manage things. You don't need a couple of different products to manage. Now you can use OneView for everything.