We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge M and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Blade Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."
"The tool's most valuable features are high availability and scalability. Its integration is easy."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website."
"The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView."
"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."
"The wireless mounting system is excellent. We can use the monitor over the Internet and perform troubleshooting remotely with the connection to SQL. It includes a comprehensive monitoring tool. It offers many features, allowing us to update, manage, maintain, and troubleshoot the system efficiently."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
"The stability of the solution is very reliable."
"It allows for easy management."
"We have been able to give the deployment team what they request more quickly. We are able to quickly deploy what is being asked of us. If the development team needs a platform of 20 servers to run a particular platform, we can give that to them within a day or two."
"On the previous HPE platform, we struggled because everything was independent. We had to manage firmware on each server, storage and network configuration on each server. Synergy is template-driven so we can ensure consistency of all of those settings. It allows us to standardize configuration and ensure consistency across the board."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"We have had some issues with the vendor's support that we have received. When you open up a support case with Dell they send a partner to assist you and in our experience, they are lacking knowledge about the solution. There are times when you need professional support from the vendor that knows the solution well."
"Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs."
"It requires time to transition to the new generation."
"It has affected the productivity of our development team in a bad way. When we first stood the hardware up 18 months ago, the image streaming capacity and capability were not very good at all. We had hoped that it would allow us to be more composable and be able to switch over from one version of an operating system to another version of an operating system. However, it wasn't ready for prime time yet. Therefore, we had to go back to a deployment of bare metal install. We are still waiting and trying to figure out how we can do the composable infrastructure."
"The Synergy platform is HPE-specific and more for on-premises. You're kind of locked in with VMware and the HPE with the VMs. The Nutanix offering is a bit more flexible."
"Technical support for this solution has a very good initial response; however, escalation takes time, and most of the time the first level of support cannot solve your case."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"I would be more comfortable if Ansible actually rolled back the data used for automating platforms. If it could be communicated to the upstream Ansible, I wouldn't need to go back and forth and validate the libraries as we upgrade the Ansible version."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
"Changes to the solution are quite complex."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 15 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex 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". Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE BladeSystem and HPE NonStop, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.
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