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 most valuable feature is its composable infrastructure. Everything I need is in the box. Manageability is through OneView, so I can get all the information about the box itself at any time I want."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do."
"The processing time has been about 50 times faster and allows us to do AI models."
"I believe, compared to the C7000, it delivers a significant amount of innovation and flexibility,"
"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."
"The solution has decreased our deployment time by 10 to 20 percent."
"It has improved our procurement and day zero provisioning. We are bringing in racks of Synergy which are not populated with the blades, then we are buying the blades and populating them, as our business needs. This has been pretty helpful to be able to sort of pre-package the data center with the Synergy platform, then deploy servers into it as we grow."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"The Lenovo Flex System is very stable."
"The stability and speed are always good. The processor is good and it's still working with our loads."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"The only good thing is that they have some powerful machines that you can use, such as the latest generations of HPE Compute that you can use."
"Its management needs some work. It is not the best in terms of management. It has decent management. Its user interface can also be better."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"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."
"ICMs could be better in this model. When you look at its competitors, the most critical point is the throughput. HPE is the best with the ICM module, which is an interconnect module that connects the servers of the frames to the LAN and SAN. HPE Synergy should also support the latest processors provided by Intel."
"Synergy could probably do some code enhancements to simplify the deployment a bit more."
"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."
"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 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."
"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 product could improve its integration capabilities."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 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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