HPE OneView Reviews

• Automation
• Simplicity of use
• Time saving
• Structured
• Balanced network application

For a company like ours, we need to make sure that all of our data and customers are protected. OneView allows us to do that by reducing our stress and time.

For future releases of OneView, I would say, let me control my cloud. Let me do stuff from the command line myself. I would love to be able to do simple things from my end with a bit of space to adjust my preferences for myself. Perhaps open the command line for Windows and let me work with it.

It is stable if you are able to understand how it works. You can’t pretend to come to this new style of IT and have it work the way you did with old technologies. If you can make sure that you understand the workarounds for your challenges, then OneView is very stable.

As long as you’re running OneView on your private cloud and you have control of it, it's scalable.

I don’t like HP support very much, as they tend to transfer me to random places that don’t help me very much.

I used to have a consulting company using open source software for healthcare for small businesses. I wanted to ensure that security was paramount in my business. After I did a risk analysis for a company, I recommended that they move to a private cloud, which was a huge project for a small company like theirs.

HP was their vendor, and they helped them move towards the solution they needed. OneView came out then, and so I checked out HP’s product line for my needs at the time as well.

It’s very straightforward but, unfortunately, not very user friendly. When you’re dealing with private infrastructure, it will always take time to implement from the get-go.

First, that it’s simple. It saves me time and is easy to use. It releases stress for me, and since I’m working with federal law, I really need to make sure that all of my customers and their data are protected properly.

Go to the field and see what the clients are going through. Don’t just use case studies; check for the real stuff. What are others struggling with, and why is that important, and will this affect us? Make sure that vendors can solve real-life scenarios because that’s what you’re struggling with as well.

We want it to improve our organization. We feel like we're in this cycle of transition of products, from SIM to OneView, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel seems to stretch. It's quite long.

I hate to say, not a lot. It's encouraging to see a couple of features in version 4 that we think ought to have been there from the start. So, we can see the development path, but so far it's been limited in what we've gotten out of it.

Those features coming in version 4 that we're looking for are the discovery, primarily. But I think the scope-based access control is of interest, although, we didn't see any directory integration, so that, in itself, seems like it's still limited. 

At the scale we're using it, which is not much, I don't think stability is something we could comment on, really. It's fine for what we've been using it for.

Depending on the ability to discover, we'll be able to answer the question of whether it will meet our needs going forward.

I think we've got the information we need. It's more of a product-set lack rather than support lack.

When we're looking at vendors we look for the product itself and innovation. With respect to the HPE, that's what we look for, and dependability and standardization, rather than going too proprietary on things. Integration as well as strong partnerships with the likes of VMware. We are a VMware shop and, aside from the current issue, that close tie between the products is of great benefit to us.

More efficient. We're quicker in solving problems, taking action to solve problems.

It monitors all our servers, and if there is any problem it straight away sends us an alert. If It's a faulty component, we can see it from there. It sends an alert.

The interface is a bit bland. It does its job, but it could have a better interface.

We've had no issues whatsoever, so far.

It should meet our needs going forward, but we're probably looking into buying, at some point, the paid version of OneView. It gives you extra, but we need to see what it gives you. Within one year, I reckon.

They're quite responsive, actually. Whenever we've had any issues and raised a ticket, they've straightened it up within an hour, maximum. And then, even if there is a component that we need to have replaced, they send an engineer or they send the component on that day.

We're quite happy actually with HP support.

HPE has been around for years and we know they're going to be for even longer. We're quite happy using them over the years, from the previous management up to now, everyone's happy with it. Everything we ask for is there. Support-wise they're great, product-wise they have what we need. I'm quite happy, overall.

For the version that we have, I give it eight out of 10, because it does exactly what we need. Obviously with a better interface, maybe be 10 out of 10.

The most valuable feature is the 360 dashboard.

It provides centralized management.

I would like to see a better backup feature so I can manage data protection better.

The product has good stability.

I haven’t tried to scale it yet.

Technical support was great.

We did not use a previous solution. We focus on HPE products.

It was a complex installation. The user guide was missing content about the configuration.

We did not evaluate any other options.

The deployment was easy. It has many features. It’s a great solution and it is easy to use. It provides a good inventory of your hardware and firmware.

Its ease of use and that it is a single-pane-of-glass are the most valuable features.

It enables faster deployment and it is easy to see the issues. Reporting is just much easier, it is just a better functionality.

There is need to make it a bit easier to federate across all of our OneVew implementations that we have, so just make it easier.

The lack of dashboard and reporting functionalities is not clear. They should carry more solutions to try and get the reporting that I need out of all of my different storage devices, i.e., VBAs and Blue Cars; they've got to do a better job and unify it for us. Currently, it's not there and it is very difficult to report.

Stability is a hit and miss.

We're not fully there yet, i.e., in the sense to fully leverage the scalability. However, we do know that it's available to us. Let's just say, it is an early adoption for us.

Responsiveness is the most important factor while selecting a vendor.

The setup was actually straightforward.

We evaluated HPE, just because they're prevalent in our environment. From the hardware perspective, we looked at SHI, on the networking side we evaluated Cisco and on the virtualization side, we evaluated Veeam, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

The reason why we decided to choose HPE is because, from a server-hardware vendor, their R&D budget is the largest and they invest the most than any other vendor, that's out there right now. So, that was the primary reason. They appear to be more cutting-edge than anybody else in terms of both the hardware and the software right now.

To make it easier, HPE is a good solution. If you have the time to engineer and customize a solution, then you will be fine with it or with any other vendor or even with a white box, for that matter. Typically in terms of flexibility and speed, HPE is a good solution.

• IT infrastructure monitoring
• Business app monitoring
• Decreases time of operations to react to incidents.
• Decreases the amount of incidents.

• Gain proactive reactions on incidents.
• Gives the business interfaces to view real-time pictures of IT business services.

• Universality of product
• Broad range of integration points for third-party software
• Broad range of tools to create executive and operations dashboards.

I think HPE could make more user-friendly interfaces, exclude Java and move to an HTML5 platform, make more detailed documentation, and lower the price.

We use this for monitoring our hardware. It is performing fine. 

We cannot function without this solution. 

• Primarily the monitoring capabilities
• A clear overview of the whole environment, the health of the whole environment

There are some important features for security in the next version. That is one of the better improvements. 

It has improved over time. It has become significantly better.

It is sometimes limited between what we see and in the next version that there will be in the global dashboard, and it will help us to get a global overview. For now, we are in separate instances. 

I have not used technical support.

We have been using it four years, and also the previous version, HBC. 

I am happy with the price. It is good.

It is a necessary tool for us and it works well. I would recommend it to a colleague at another company looking for a similar solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: There are multiple factors - the stability, the pricing in some parts, etc.

I like that it is quite easy to

• add servers and get them monitored and manageable
• create templates for server profiles
• see if all my servers are on correct firmware levels, with SPP packaging.

It needs more reporting capabilities.

I haven't had any real downtime. I have experienced when it hangs for a couple of seconds, or minutes, but no downtime. When it hangs it's quite annoying, everything should happen immediately.

In regards to scalability, it is going to meet our needs, at least now. I have eight 1U instances, that cover the central environment and also the distributed environments that we have. I'm going to install the global dashboard, so we have the umbrella over everything, so it's easy to see and manage it.

Tech support is knowledgeable, responsive. I have good contacts, so they do care.

The setup is much simpler. I was working with the previous product, HPE SIM, and that was a lot worse to set up. This is really easy to set up.

I rate it a seven out of 10 because I think it has good potential, and they are developing it more and more, so it's getting better and better.