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"This product is very reliable.""We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good.""One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it.""SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications.""The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience.""Superdome X is a system that can compete in terms of performance and uptime, but it's now standard. That is the great value. There are competitors like IBM, for example, but IBM has a propietary operating system. With Superdome X, you have a system that can run Windows, Red Hat, or VMware, but in a mission critical server.""I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."

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"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place.""OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space.""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.""The most valuable features of HPE Synergy are the two composers.""Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions.""It gives us ease of use. It's nice because we don't have to mess with networking once it's set up. Once it's done, we just put another blade in and go from there. We don't have to go back in, run more cables, deal with more data center stuff. We stick a blade in, use the server profile template, build out a server profile from that, and it just goes.""The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view.""Synergy is much easier to use, which is saving us time. We are able to set the profiles for firmware upgrades. This makes the process for the care and feeding of the IT environment much simpler, quicker, and cleaner."

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Cons
"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud.""It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online.""In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful.""I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported.""What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver."""I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."

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"One of the things that I would like to see, and could be in their road map, is getting virtual connect to 100 Gig throughput.""I would like the ability to take the storage tray that is in a chassis and share it out to multiple chassis, not just the servers within the same chassis. This would be more efficient with resources.""The pricing can be improved as it is a costly solution due to sanctions in Iran.""There is certainly a feature or two missing.""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.""Product documentation is disorganized.""One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles.""I'd like to see the firmware updates, as well as the built-in OneView and imager in Composer, become a little more powerful and faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is a very expensive one-time cost with no licensing fees."
  • "The pricing is not very cheap. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very inexpensive, and ten being very expensive."
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  • "The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
  • "The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."
  • "In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
  • "The biggest cost is the VMware licensing."
  • "We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."
  • "There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."
  • "Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
  • "We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable.
    Top Answer:The pricing is not very cheap. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very inexpensive, and ten being very expensive.
    Top Answer:In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important… more »
    Top Answer:For me, choosing between HPE’s Bladesystem and Synergy came down to which solution was more powerful, reliable, and stable. It turns out Bladesystem was the winner. Bladesystem is excellent because it… more »
    Top Answer:It is a good product for hypervisors.
    Top Answer:You have to propose Synergy with your customer base.
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    Also Known As
    HP Integrity Superdome, HP Superdome X
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    Overview
    HPE Superdome X is an HPE server that represents a new category of x86 modular, mission-critical systems to consolidate all tiers of critical applications on a common platform. Engineered with trusted Superdome 2 reliability, the HPE Superdome X includes a modular, bladed design, and shares HPE BladeSystem efficiencies including a common server management framework, supported from x86 to Superdome 2. With breakthrough innovations such as the fault-tolerant Crossbar Fabric and Error Analysis Engine coupled with hard partitioning capabilities, Superdome X sets the standard for mission-critical x86 computing.

    HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

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    Financial Services Firm17%
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    Manufacturing Company7%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Retailer9%
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Large Enterprise57%
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    Large Enterprise65%
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    HPE Superdome X is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 11 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. HPE Superdome X is rated 9.0, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Superdome X writes "Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration ". 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 Superdome X is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, HPE NonStop, Lenovo Flex System and HPE Integrity, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and Lenovo Flex System.

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