We performed a comparison between HPE Synergy and Super Micro SuperBlade 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 makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs."
"Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications."
"We have been able to give the deployment team what they request more quickly. We are able to quickly deploy what is being asked of us. If the development team needs a platform of 20 servers to run a particular platform, we can give that to them within a day or two."
"The hyper-converged infrastructure where everything is stateless is valuable. Basically, you have your compute storage and networking management."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"It is first in class for composable infrastructure. It has the scalability that meets our future needs and the automation that builds into something that we are really looking forward to using."
"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."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"I would really like a way to validate the firmware in my specific environment before trying to deploy it. Those were the issues we had early on with firmware upgrades, particularly around certificates. All in all, having some level of confidence aside from it just having been tested generically would help. Something more specific to my environment would be very helpful."
"The pricing can be improved as it is a costly solution due to sanctions in Iran."
"It has been in the external integrations to other platforms that we have, which aren't HPE, where some of our challenges have been. I would like to see some integrations with non-HPE platforms."
"The initial setup was complex. It was slow and just didn't work. Even HPE couldn't make it work for 45 days."
"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."
"They were not so deep into integration with VMware."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
"The solution does not scale well."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 8th in Blade Servers with 4 reviews. HPE Synergy is rated 8.4, while Super Micro SuperBlade is rated 8.0. 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 Super Micro SuperBlade writes "Easy to set up with good technical support but does not scale well". HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Integrity and HPE BladeSystem.
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