HPE OneView Reviews

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.

The centralized management of the HPE Virtual Connect (VC) is the most valuable feature.

Just having a centralized view, instead of having to go to each chassis for managing Virtual Connect is very helpful; I got it all in one place.

It tends to detect flood conditions on a lot of the networks. I'll have blades that are suddenly offline because it detected a flood condition on that particular NIC. I've called support on that and they're like, "Yeah, we have detected a flood condition, it is a loop." However, I tell them, "We don't have a loop." So, you reset it and reboot the blade; the ESX comes back up and away you go. That has happened to me three or four times now. So, hopefully, we can figure out what's causing this at some point in time.

It has been stable, I haven't had any problems with it at all.

We have six HPE c7000 chassis, across two data centers and everything is good. We have a single OneView product in each location.

I have used technical support. It has been probably a year, but I have used them. They are excellent.

Previously, we were just managing the blades directly through the HPE Onboard Administrator (OA) and Virtual Connect (VC). We were building up brand new data centers, with brand new equipment and we had the choice of doing it the old way, or using OneView; we could just have two places to see it, i.e., one on each data center. So, we decided to combine it, this was a suggestion by one of the partners.

Stability and support are the most important criteria while looking for a vendor.

The setup was straightforward; it was pretty easy. It's a pretty simple setup; you just install your server. It's a virtual appliance and you throw it on there, start it up, add your chassis and away you go.

If you are experienced with OA and Virtual Connect, that it's a completely different animal when you're in OneView; the interface isn't the same. Finally, you figure out how OneView works. It could be that you, maybe, have never used a chassis before and then, finally, you understand this Virtual Connect beast and how to set everything up. Then, you're like, "Let's get OneView!" and you switch to OneView. The theories behind it are the same, but the interface is different and the way you set it up is different. So, I will advise being aware of going in.

We are a solution provider and HPE OneView is one of the products that we implement for our clients. When we first started using OneView, we used it for monitoring our server. After that, I added my blade server and then two years ago, Synergy.  Since then, I have been managing my HPE BladeSystem and Synergy with OneView.

It is also used for configuring my Virtual Connect, the operating system for my server, and so on.

The OneView Global Dashboard is very user-friendly and it can be used for monitoring the power consumption and temperature of the data center and racks.

It would be better if we can add every HPE device to OneView, such as MSA, as well as the other servers like the DL server and ML server.

I would like to see the price reduced.

HPE OneView is a relatively new product that was introduced between six and seven years ago. I have been familiar with it since the first version, and have been working with it for between five and six years.

Stability-wise, it is okay. It suits us well.

I haven't had any problems with the scalability and configuration. I have set up and configured OneView for several customers that range in size from 50 servers to 500 servers. I would say that it works well for medium-sized organizations.

The initial setup is very easy. You have to create a virtual machine, turn it on, and go to the setup.

I think that the price of OneView is $500 USD per server, which is a little high. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

This is a product that I can recommend to others. The most important thing about OneView is that the primary usage is for configuring BladeSystem and Synergy. If the number of servers that you have is not very high then you do not need OneView because you can manage them using the system manager. You can do intelligent provisioning, for example.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

HPE OneView is an overview of a server infrastructure. It is performing really well. 

We are guessing up-to-date that it has improved efficiency across the board, and it has basically made our lives a lot easier since we can react a lot faster to any business requirements. 

By being able to deploy servers very quickly and rapidly, we can respond to any business requirement needed. 

Additional APIs.

It is very stable. We have had no downtime nor issues in approximately a year. 

It scales well.

I only used technical support during the initial trial and setup process. I felt that they were knowledgeable and answered me immediately.

We decided we needed this solution when we came to HPE's event in 2016 London. 

Initial setup is fairly straightforward.

We had HPE engineers on the phone. 

There are no other real products out there at the moment which do the same thing as OneView. 

Buy the product. It is really good.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Honest, reputable vendor, and one that we tend to have a good working relationship as well with. 

Managing our C7000, at this moment. In the future, it will be managing Synergy too, hopefully. We have a version 3 and a version 1.2, but the upgrade process from the 1.2 to the 3 is kind of an issue. However, the performance is good.

We lose less time managing the machines.

Managing everything from one screen, so we do not have to open another screen for every machine. It saves a lot of time for us.

OS deployment, but it is in version 4 with Synergy.

So far, so good. We had a couple issues with the earlier version, but I do not think those issues will occur now.

It should scale to what we will need in the future.

Technical support is not very good. The engineers do not know a lot about the product, even when asked simplistic questions.

If you have a lot of devices, like we do, then you have to have one single pane of view, otherwise we lose too much time. So, we needed this type of solution, and it is the only option HPE offers.

No.

I would recommend this solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: reliability and good support.

One-pane-of-glass, i.e., being able to manage all our facets of hardware through one-pane-of-glass, is the most valuable feature.

It has improved the working of our organization by providing more consistency within our firmware, drivers, firmware baseline and server profiling; thus it provides more consistency.

There should be an easier management of the driver and firmware baseline.

The stability of the solution is unfavorable. We have had some struggles with OneView. We have seen a lot of errors and a lot of open cases. We are progressively seeing text that says “Upgrade! Upgrade! Upgrade!”. That is not what I want to hear when I have a production issue. I can't just take down a production server to upgrade. They need to fix the problem rather than constantly chasing our tails to upgrade.

We're growing into multiple data centers, so having multiple OneView instances, is something that we're just deploying now. I'm not completely familiar with it yet, so we'll see.

The support has been a struggle at times. On the server side, it has been a little bit better than on the storage side; the storage side has been a real struggle. Some of the biggest issues that we ran into were that we have a pretty strong regional team. But, when our regional team coordinates with the global support team, on the HPE 3PAR side, there's a big disconnect and then as the customer, we get hit on it.

Previously, we were using a different hardware vendor. The inconsistency of the drivers and firmware was one of the strongest reasons as to why we switched to HPE.

The setup was fairly straightforward. The UI was easy to use, which was good.

We looked at other solutions namely IBM, Dell, and Cisco. It was a business relationship for choosing HPE, as well as their price-point, was strong. At the time, the Gartner reports indicated HPE was the leading vendor from a server/hardware perspective, so that is why we selected this solution.

Leverage your technical account managers (TAMs) and your technical advisors when deploying the hardware.

It provides easy administration.

It minimizes our administration for the market.

I would like to see, probably a little bit tighter Type B integration.

The product is really stable.

It is very scalable.

The technical support team is very responsive.

Actually, it was just that, at that time, we decided to invest in this solution. We were still using the HPE ConvergedSystem.

The setup was very complex, but it wasn't always complex. We had some issues at the micro-level, but they resolved all of that.

We were still using the HPE equipment before the ConvergedSystem.

The stability and support are important factors while selecting a vendor.

I would actually look at the support model for HPE in the newer versions.

It provides a good view of the whole infrastructure. It makes it easy to manage the infrastructure, including the server infrastructure and firmware updates.

It keeps our costs down and improves the time it takes to manage our infrastructure and deploy.

We have different operations teams managing the servers. It should be segregated more in terms of which operation team is managing which group of servers.

I never faced any stability issues.

It is easier and faster to integrate a new BladeSystem, new servers, and a new chassis into an existing HPE OneView instance.

We have a good relationship with HPE. It is not really with technical support, but more with presales for defining the cost of features and services.

Previously, we managed the servers manually.

I was involved with the initial setup with the engineering and the operations team. It was quite easy.

I would advise colleagues to look into using this solution. Now we know that HPE OneView is the future and an important the layer of synergy management; so we need to use it right now.

When we evaluate vendors, we want a good explanation of the product and a good understanding of how the support will be. A good relationship with the vendor is important, as well as a lower price. Even if we know that this product is technically the best, the manager won’t want to select it if it is more expensive than others.