We performed a comparison between HPE Blade system and HPE Synergy based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Synergy is a better choice. Our reviewers find that Synergy offers better support, stability and scalability, and it is worth the complex setup.
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"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."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"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."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"Cable management is a big feature, in addition to time to deployment. We can buy a new server and have it up and running very quickly."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."
"Changing the form factor in Synergy allows us to have more RAM, which is significantly helpful for us."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"Because we're using 2012, we're having issues making templates."
"I think we were promised a little more than we were given. It's true, they are working very hard to try to help remedy that."
"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."
"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 be more comfortable if Ansible actually rolled back the data used for automating platforms. If it could be communicated to the upstream Ansible, I wouldn't need to go back and forth and validate the libraries as we upgrade the Ansible version."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."
"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". 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 BladeSystem is most compared with Cisco UCS B-Series, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade and HPE Superdome X, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy report.
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