We performed a comparison between HPE Superdome X and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."
"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."
"One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it."
"This product is very reliable."
"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."
"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."
"I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."
"The solution has decreased our deployment time by 10 to 20 percent."
"Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs."
"We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities."
"Orchestrating automations is great because you can connect to other tools with the REST API and automate components."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
"It is a simple software to integrate with others."
"The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"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.""
"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."
"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."
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
"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."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out."
"This solution could be improved by increasing the speed on the conversion adapters. It should be 100 gigs."
"The solution must concentrate on improving the product quality."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"The lowest echelon of HPE technical support is sadly uninformed, unknowledgeable, and dependent on wrote scripts. They won't answer a question without going through their script. It's not like you're actually talking to somebody who has any depth or time using any of the equipment."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
HPE Superdome X is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 11 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 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, Lenovo Flex System, HPE NonStop 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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