We performed a comparison between HPE Synergy and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."
"I like that it's suitable for virtualization. It's also stable and scalable. The newer version has a lot of memory, and you don't have to worry about updates."
"Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The speed in OneView and how it updates the entire configuration needs improvement. If they can do that, and it could be a little more clear on what impact different actions will have for certain things, that would be good."
"The solution must concentrate on improving the product quality."
"We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
"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."
"In the Generation 10 modules, we have observed that very often the server has hardware issues."
"You can always improve some things."
"Because we're using 2012, we're having issues making templates."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"It would be beneficial if the layer could support the S3 protocol and be container ready in the next release."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"I would like to see better integration."
"In the realm of micro-services, I think that Pure Storage can do well if they start getting in there and making their arrays more micro-services ready."
"The solution is expensive."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. HPE Synergy is rated 8.4, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Pure FlashArray X NVMe.
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