We performed a comparison between HPE Blade system and HPE Synergy based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Synergy is a better choice. Our reviewers find that Synergy offers better support, stability and scalability, and it is worth the complex setup.
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"The solution has good performance."
"The single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler."
"The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"The manageability is its most valuable feature. It is a fully managed platform, which is very simple to manage."
"The solution is built very well. It's very robust and durable."
"It has improved our procurement and day zero provisioning. We are bringing in racks of Synergy which are not populated with the blades, then we are buying the blades and populating them, as our business needs. This has been pretty helpful to be able to sort of pre-package the data center with the Synergy platform, then deploy servers into it as we grow."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
"There is always room for improvement. Based on our use cases, I don't believe there are any additional features required."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"The main challenge we faced was that when it was installed it just did not work. There were faulty components and it took weeks of troubleshooting to find the faulty components, get them replaced. Getting help from HPE was difficult. Nobody knew about the product. It was a brand-new product and people had not been trained on it. That part was not a great experience."
"We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work."
"The initial setup was complex. From what I was told, there were issues initially with getting the SFPs on the floor for our data center and something with the image, but I think that was on our service provider' side. They couldn't get the image to deploy with the right drivers and stuff."
"There is certainly a feature or two missing."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". HPE BladeSystem is most compared with Cisco UCS B-Series, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Superdome X and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy report.
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