HPE Synergy pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.2 out of 5

85 reviews
91% willing to recommend

653 followers

HPE Synergy Pros review quotes

PB

Director at Cerner Corporation

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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BB

VP Technology at Scalematrix

Jun 25, 2019

It's very scalable. We like the idea that we can put four chassis in one of our racks, and we can connect up to 25 chassis, so the scalability to us, and being able to sync all those into one management portal, is unheard of. You can't really sync that many blades and chassis together in any other platform.

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IT Architect at Unibase

Dec 5, 2017

I believe, compared to the C7000, it delivers a significant amount of innovation and flexibility,

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WH

Services Support Supervisor at State of Washington

Jun 25, 2019

The single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler.

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DH

Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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LM

System Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Jun 25, 2019

We build out a whole stack at one time, so we don't have to worry about it until that stack is full, then that gives us time to get the next one ready.

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RC

Manager IT Infrastructure at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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JP

Storage Engineer at Brigham Young University

Jun 25, 2019

Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me.

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VD

CIO at GCC

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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Chief Technology Officer at vGRID New Zealand

Nov 7, 2017

Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes.

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PB

Director at Cerner Corporation

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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BB

VP Technology at Scalematrix

Jun 25, 2019

The initial setup was complex. We had a couple of bright engineers working on it, and they figured out a lot of things that they don't know... The problem was that they couldn't find documentation easily, to walk them through setup when they just didn't know the platform.

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WH

Services Support Supervisor at State of Washington

Jun 25, 2019

We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate.

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DH

Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 25, 2019

Continue the path of integrating OneView into a single product. A lot of different people have different OneView experiences based on which product they have used it for.

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LM

System Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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RC

Manager IT Infrastructure at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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JP

Storage Engineer at Brigham Young University

Jun 25, 2019

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.

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VD

CIO at GCC

Jun 25, 2019

I'd like to see the firmware updates, as well as the built-in OneView and imager in Composer, become a little more powerful and faster.

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Chief Technology Officer at vGRID New Zealand

Nov 7, 2017

We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end.

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JN

Senior Server Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jun 25, 2019

I would like the ability to have my storage components accessed from any other frame across the backplane. If we have a storage module and we run out of space in that frame, it'd be nice to be able to share it across the frames. You can do it with hyperconverged. Why can't you do it with Synergy?

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