HPE OneView Reviews

The most valuable feature is the capability it provides to implement automation and write automation scripts. This is what the world is going after.

We deliver faster now.

Sometimes it gets slow, so it doesn’t always perform well. I think it's a work in progress.

Every product has it's bugs, but they are getting fixed.

Technical support was very useful. For me, when you are choosing a product, good technical support is a must.

We were using HPE SIM. That's fairly buggy. It's okay for monitoring hardware, but it's a bit of a drama for other things.

The initial setup was straightforward, but partially complex. It was complex in previous versions because not all the online features were available, but currently I think it should be straightforward with version 3.0.

I think this is a very good solution if you want to have your compliance up-to-date, directly available, and you want to automate.

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.

Administration-wise it's going to be easier. More smooth and more flexible.

We also have the 3PAR and the GUI is almost the same. So the recognition phase is very good.

It's new for us, so I need to get the hands-on experience first, before I comment on this.

We don't have that much history yet. But the HPE technician who implemented it, he says it is very stable and recommended us to it. Normally he's right.

It will grow with us over time. No concerns here.

They are knowledgeable and responsive. They came onsite to help with the setup.

We have two C7000 enclosures in two different datacenters. And the 1U is in a third datacenter. So our management and surveillance is in the third datacenter. It's straightforward to set up.

We've almost been "married" with HPE for 15 years now. Our network is HPE, storage is HPE, computers, servers, everything is HPE. We have a DS agreement with them. They run our network, and our storage system, and our email. 

We are very glad. Happy with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.