We performed a comparison between HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and others in Rack Servers."The feature that I find the most valuable is that all alerts are integrated with HPE InfoSight. Any problem related to an HPE server can be solved remotely at L1, L2 level."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Where there is a need to actually expand on the capacity, it's easily done, especially when more memory is needed."
"HPE ProLiant DL Servers are easy to maintain. When we need to update the firmware or we need to log on remotely via the IO management interface. It's very convenient, easy. The supply chain is fast when we need to replace some failed hardware, such as hard drives or power supplies. Most of the time, it only takes a few days. The HPE ProLiant DL Servers services are officially certified for Red Hat usage which is a big advantage."
"ProLiant DL servers are the best on the market. The models support an extensive list of Intel processors."
"I am impressed with the tool’s stability."
"Technical support are mostly helpful."
"It's reliable and stable."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
"The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks."
"I believe, compared to the C7000, it delivers a significant amount of innovation and flexibility,"
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"Give us the ability to seamlessly migrate from one operating environment to another within minutes, which is invaluable."
"The solution should work to be more scalable."
"In terms of what could be improved, if I could have faster processors with less cores, that would be good."
"It's scalable but we are switching to workstation for some software because the CPU speed isn't fast enough anymore."
"HPE ProLiant DL Servers are customizable, but when you first deploy them, you basically have to rebuild configurations on them. This is true for large orders. But for small orders, you will be tied up with previous configurations of some other brand like Dell."
"We found that the extensions could be improved and the price could be a little lower."
"It has something called WorldView. They should do some enhancement over WorldView to run an operating system as a code. Such a feature would be amazing for running multiple servers. They are already working on this, and they can enhance the existing versions for this. It should also be cheaper. It is currently expensive."
"The pricing of the solution is high compared to other products."
"The speed of the solution could be increased."
"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."
"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."
"They were not so deep into integration with VMware."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"The performance could be better. The converged network cards initially didn't work. However, later on in the newer version, they came up with 50 GB network cards to replace the 20 GB ones, and it's perfectly fine now. At times, it could also be more stable."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"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."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
HPE ProLiant DL Servers is ranked 2nd in Rack Servers with 156 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. HPE ProLiant DL Servers is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE ProLiant DL Servers writes "Good availability and management console with good reliability". 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 ProLiant DL Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, HPE Apollo, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Oracle SPARC Servers, 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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