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."Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me."
"Improved storage, scalability, and ease-of-use."
"The most valuable features of HPE Synergy are the two composers."
"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."
"It makes it simpler for me to manage my environment. It is one pane of glass, compared to multiple."
"Support is very helpful."
"Orchestrating automations is great because you can connect to other tools with the REST API and automate components."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"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."
"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."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"I would like more storage with this solution, because we still need 3PAR or other storage outside the box for the amount of data that we have."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"We haven't seen any ROI, and it hasn't reduced our cost of operations."
"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."
"We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work."
"There is certainly a feature or two missing."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
"The product could improve its integration capabilities."
"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."
"Flex System's integration with the XClarity Management System could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
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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