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We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge M and HPE Synergy 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website.""The tool's most valuable features are high availability and scalability. Its integration is easy.""It's great for managing overall infrastructure.""The networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable.""The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware.""The solution is made with high-quality hardware.""The initial setup is easy.""I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."

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"The solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours.""The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks.""It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly.""It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes.""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 is helping us sort of bridge a gap that we are having moving off of old legacy systems, like HP-UX systems and trying to move over to x86. So, it is helping fill a hardware gap that a lot of our platforms have needed in the past.""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.""Everything is in one place. We have one place to with OneView. It provides one console with one place to get to everything. The one interface makes it easier. We have one guy who does almost everything in it."

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Cons
"We have had some issues with the vendor's support that we have received. When you open up a support case with Dell they send a partner to assist you and in our experience, they are lacking knowledge about the solution. There are times when you need professional support from the vendor that knows the solution well.""Technical support is not good.""The firmware updates for the product need improvement.""I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers.""It requires time to transition to the new generation.""Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution.""More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection.""In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."

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"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage.""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.""One of the issues that we that we have been having is with the firmware baselining. So, we need to just making sure that we get that working. However, we are in the early stages. It may well be that we just tweak a few things.""A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution.""I would like the ability to take the storage tray that is in a chassis and share it out to multiple chassis, not just the servers within the same chassis. This would be more efficient with resources.""The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out.""We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end.""The cost is quite high."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It was budget friendly."
  • "If we would not have gone with the vendor we might have been charged unnecessarily for packages we did not need."
  • "Dell PowerEdge M price is comparable to other solutions but cheaper than IBM. However, the IBM solution is a higher grade solution whereas Dell PowerEdge M is a medium-level solution."
  • "The pricing of PowerEdge Next is higher than it was before."
  • "The product is neither expensive nor cheap. It is manageable for medium enterprises as well."
  • "The solution's pricing is slightly higher."
  • "The product is budget-friendly. The initial cost for each server was around 10,000 euros. It's a standard price, not too high or too low."
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  • "The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
  • "The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."
  • "In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
  • "The biggest cost is the VMware licensing."
  • "We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."
  • "There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."
  • "Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
  • "We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing is slightly higher. However, we don't require an additional license for it. The solution's pricing depends on the customer's connectivity requirements, whether 10G, 25G, or 100… more »
    Top Answer:Cisco UCS X-series provides a GPU node and compute node in a single chassis. Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs.
    Top Answer:For me, choosing between HPE’s Bladesystem and Synergy came down to which solution was more powerful, reliable, and stable. It turns out Bladesystem was the winner. Bladesystem is excellent because it… more »
    Top Answer:It is a good product for hypervisors.
    Top Answer:You have to propose Synergy with your customer base.
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    Overview

    The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers address the challenges of an evolving IT environment by delivering leading enterprise classfeatures and functionality. The M-Series delivers a unique array of options configured to meet the needs of your IT environment both now and in the future.

    • Multiple blade form-factor choices.
    • Long life cycle providing better life cycle management and improved TCO.
    • Modular I/O switches for future scalability.
    • Breakthrough fan technologies for reduction in power consumption.
    • Configuration management via chassis management controller.
    • Persistent MAC/WWN/iSCSI addresses in a switch-agnostic environment.

    HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

    Sample Customers
    Newport City Homes, Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC), Georgian College, AgreeYa Solutions, IIHT Cloud Solutions, Arizona State University, AudienceScience, University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Holy Cross School
    HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Hospitality Company11%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Retailer9%
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 15 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex 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". Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE BladeSystem and HPE NonStop, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.

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