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.

Ease of Deployment: Users of HPE Bladesystem say the setup was a bit complex initially and could be simplified. While the deployment of HPE Synergy is very quick, some users find it complex and have issues with configurations.

Features: Bladesystem’s most valuable features, according to our reviewers, are ease of management, scalability and stability. Users say Bladesystem is very easy to use. However, the product is being discontinued, so this constitutes a downside. Other disadvantages include it being difficult to replicate virtual machines and issues with virtual connections. Synergy users say the solution has great data storage and is built very well. It is stable, versatile and scalable. The downsides include issues with the firmware, and that it is not very suitable for hybrid environments.

Pricing: Users of both solutions feel the prices are affordable.
Service and Support: Bladesystem users say the level of technical support varies according to region and that it needs improvement in responding quickly to tickets. On the other hand, Synergy users find the technical support to be excellent.

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.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy Report (Updated: June 2024).

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HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy

June 2024

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Categories and Ranking

HPE BladeSystem

Ranking in Blade Servers

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

134

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Synergy

Ranking in Blade Servers

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Composable Infrastructure (1st)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Blade Servers category, the market share of HPE BladeSystem is 14.8% and it decreased by 25.6% compared to the previous year. The market share of HPE Synergy is 26.8% and it increased by 14.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

reviewer1517220

Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 15, 2022

An easy-to-use system that conserves space

We are using it for our hypervisor. Within our organization, there are roughly 2,000 users, using this solution. Software-defined hardware might sound counter-intuitive, but it is the way of the future. HPE BladeSystem is easy to use. It conserves a lot of space. The management side of this…

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Manjunath V

IT Operations Team Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees

Jan 29, 2024

Composable infrastructure solution that offers valuable converged network adapters

Customer workloads of extensive computing It reduced cabling overhead and increased the performance by reduced rack space. The most valuable features are the converged network adapters. This solution could be improved by increasing the speed on the conversion adapters. It should be 100 gigs. I…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The scalability has been good."

"It's very scalable."

"The solution has good performance."

"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."

"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."

"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."

"It is not expensive."

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"Shorter delivery times. Where we now have a delivery time of about six weeks, we hope to go back to days."

"The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component."

"The single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."

"OneView, as a single point, a single management tool, it makes me delirious. It's really nice."

"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."

"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."

"HPE Synergy is a stable solution."

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Cons

"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."

"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."

"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."

"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."

"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."

"The connectivity speed could be improved."

"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."

"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."

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"There is certainly a feature or two missing."

"I would be more comfortable if Ansible actually rolled back the data used for automating platforms. If it could be communicated to the upstream Ansible, I wouldn't need to go back and forth and validate the libraries as we upgrade the Ansible version."

"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."

"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."

"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."

"The setup was a bit complex."

"In the Generation 10 modules, we have observed that very often the server has hardware issues."

"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The prices for the HPE Virtual Connect Modules are expensive compared to other I/O Modules available."

"The licensing is on an annual basis."

"Add OneView and ILO advanced to the base product. Don’t adjust the price, but just include them."

"The product’s price is high compared to one of its competitors."

"The price of HPE BladeSystem could improve. They need to reduce the price to be able to compete better with other vendors, such as Dell."

"There is a one-time purchase for the HPE BladeSystem."

"The HPE BladeSystem is an expensive solution."

"The price could be cheaper."

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"We outright purchased Synergy."

"We have already paid once. It is just the price for the permit and its use. It seems you don't have to keep paying for it, but I am not sure."

"The licensing is more around the software for RGS, because we are deploying bare metal installs. It is mainly the operating system and any lights-out management. So, licensing is minimum. We are licensing it annually."

"For me, the scalability is how much money that I need to spend on switches for how many frames, which ultimately means servers. To get the best bandwidth before the most recent product announcement, I have buy new switches every three frames. The competition is shipping a product right now where I only need switches every ten frames."

"We do CAPEX."

"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."

"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."

"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?

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...

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What do you like most about HPE BladeSystem?

The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE BladeSystem?

The solution is expensive.

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What do you like most about HPE Synergy?

It is a good product for hypervisors.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?

Synergy is a bit pricier. When we compared it with Dell during the migration to this Synergy unit, our client also sought quotes from another provider. Ultimately, although we were slightly more ex...

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What needs improvement with HPE Synergy?

The hardware specs are impressive, and its flexibility for scalability is noteworthy. Based on our experience, it fulfills our needs efficiently. Implementing it has been straightforward without an...

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Also Known As

HP ProLiant BL Series Servers, HP ProLiant BladeSystem, HP BladeSystem

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Overview

HP ProLiant BladeSystem share power, cooling, network, and storage infrastructure via the blade enclosure. Since equipment is not needed for each server, you get a dramatic reduction in power distribution units, power cables, LAN and SAN switches, connectors, adapters, and cables. And you can add the newest-generation technologies by simply changing individual components.

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

EMIS Health

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

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