We performed a comparison between HPE Synergy and Super Micro SuperBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."The initial setup is straightforward. The infrastructures as code enables you to fill out the configuration before you even deploy it, then it is just a one-touch deployment."
"Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs."
"Support is very helpful."
"The benefit is that it's going to be maintained, contrary to what we had last year, when the maintenance went off for the last generation of the servers that we had there."
"The flexibility to link them together and configure them gives us the ability to scale out easily, to add more compute resources as needed... The way that they're scalable and flexible means we can add additional servers in quickly... We're not spending a lot of time doing procurement and building of physical servers."
"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."
"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 stability of the solution is very reliable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement. There is some sort of convoluted spreadsheet that you have to fill in prior to the platform being delivered. It seems a little bit out-of-date and inefficient. Surely, there is some sort of web page configuration tool online that a customer could use. Then, it could be validated by somebody else, like a partner or HPE technical resource, then that would be a lot more efficient."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"HPE Synergy could improve its remote support."
"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."
"ICMs could be better in this model. When you look at its competitors, the most critical point is the throughput. HPE is the best with the ICM module, which is an interconnect module that connects the servers of the frames to the LAN and SAN. HPE Synergy should also support the latest processors provided by Intel."
"One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
"The solution does not scale well."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 7th in Blade Servers with 4 reviews. HPE Synergy is rated 8.4, while Super Micro SuperBlade is rated 8.0. 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 Super Micro SuperBlade writes "Easy to set up with good technical support but does not scale well". HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Apollo, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with HPE Integrity, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M and Cisco UCS B-Series.
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