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."The solution is made with high-quality hardware."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website."
"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."
"The solution integrated well."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"The networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"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."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"The solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours."
"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."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"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."
"We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"The set up is complex"
"Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it."
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"It requires time to transition to the new generation."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"They have not improved their product since it was purchased."
"The cost is quite high."
"The main challenge we faced was that when it was installed it just did not work. There were faulty components and it took weeks of troubleshooting to find the faulty components, get them replaced. Getting help from HPE was difficult. Nobody knew about the product. It was a brand-new product and people had not been trained on it. That part was not a great experience."
"A big thing for me is moving InfoSight for ProLiant into OneView, or at least connecting it. Today we have to use the iLO Amplifier Pack and that would require us to reconfigure iLO on every single one of the servers, independently, to get that data into InfoSight. We're really looking for a single control and management plane."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"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."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 14 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 Fujitsu Primergy BX900 Series, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE Superdome X and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.
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