We performed a comparison between HPE Synergy and Lenovo Flex System 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."The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component."
"The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view."
"Everything is in one place. We have one place to with OneView. It provides one console with one place to get to everything. The one interface makes it easier. We have one guy who does almost everything in it."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"It's more composable, you can use storage as well as compute blades. So maybe it's more versatile compared to the traditional blade systems."
"Cable management is a big feature, in addition to time to deployment. We can buy a new server and have it up and running very quickly."
"The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly, by using the Composer for efficiency. It has also improved the productivity of our development team due to the efficiency of being able to deploy via Composer."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The Lenovo Flex System is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The stability and speed are always good. The processor is good and it's still working with our loads."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"We haven't seen any ROI, and it hasn't reduced our cost of operations."
"They have not improved their product since it was purchased."
"In the Generation 10 modules, we have observed that very often the server has hardware issues."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"I'd get the firmware to be a little more secure and a little more streamlined."
"Continue the path of integrating OneView into a single product. A lot of different people have different OneView experiences based on which product they have used it for."
"Product documentation is disorganized."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
"Forced restarts due to free upgrades is an issue that needs to be resolved. We can manage this as we have high availability and redundancy, but without that it could be a real problem."
"Flex System's integration with the XClarity Management System could be improved."
"The user-interface needs improvement, because they have an application from which we have to manage the whole system and all the infrastructure. This application is not working at our premises, because of some problem with the hardware itself. So although we brought it with our systems, and we used it to manage all the systems: the storage, the switches, and everything, nevertheless we have to support every part alone and enter the interface in one-by-one."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"It does not have the same module flexibility that was present in IBM Blade. On the Blade System, I was able to choose between the Cisco module, or BMC module. Since the switch to Lenovo, I have not had the same choice of modules, only the BMC modules."
"The product could improve its integration capabilities."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews while Lenovo Flex System is ranked 9th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews. HPE Synergy is rated 8.4, while Lenovo Flex System is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo Flex System writes "Provides a high initial ceiling before upscaling is required, user-friendly and rich in resources, but has occasional stability issues". HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas Lenovo Flex System is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series and Dell PowerEdge M. See our HPE Synergy vs. Lenovo Flex System report.
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