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.
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified 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."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"It is very stable."
"It is a good product for hypervisors."
"There is no problem with the scalability."
"The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks."
"The solution has decreased our deployment time by 10 to 20 percent."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"We're able to provision different applications, different demonstrations, add cloud-like speeds on-prem, which is unheard of in the industry."
"Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs."
"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement. There is some sort of convoluted spreadsheet that you have to fill in prior to the platform being delivered. It seems a little bit out-of-date and inefficient. Surely, there is some sort of web page configuration tool online that a customer could use. Then, it could be validated by somebody else, like a partner or HPE technical resource, then that would be a lot more efficient."
"The initial setup was complex. It was slow and just didn't work. Even HPE couldn't make it work for 45 days."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"HPE Synergy could improve its remote support."
"Synergy could probably do some code enhancements to simplify the deployment a bit more."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 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, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE Superdome X and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy report.
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