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."Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications."
"The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly with some app deployments."
"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."
"Changing the form factor in Synergy allows us to have more RAM, which is significantly helpful for us."
"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."
"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."
"I love the satellite architecture for the Virtual Connect. I think this is great. I love the storage drawer, which you can present volumes to any compute node within the same frame."
"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 stability and speed are always good. The processor is good and it's still working with our loads."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The Lenovo Flex System is very stable."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"Technical support for this solution has a very good initial response; however, escalation takes time, and most of the time the first level of support cannot solve your case."
"Because we're using 2012, we're having issues making templates."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"You can always improve some things."
"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."
"When templates are created, there are some steps where you need to reboot the machines. Being in production, this is not a good idea. For example, if you reconfigure the network, you should not have to reboot the machine. You should just apply the new template and that's it."
"Product documentation is disorganized."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
"The product could improve its integration capabilities."
"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."
"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 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."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 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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