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 solution has good scalability."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The scalability is great."
"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."
"There is no problem with the scalability."
"The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view."
"It is a simple software to integrate with others."
"For me, this is the best frame server technology available in the market. We can compare it to Cisco UCS. It is robust and stable, and it is also easy to deploy and scale. Their support is the best."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
"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."
"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."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"Product documentation is disorganized."
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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