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."Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"It gives us ease of use. It's nice because we don't have to mess with networking once it's set up. Once it's done, we just put another blade in and go from there. We don't have to go back in, run more cables, deal with more data center stuff. We stick a blade in, use the server profile template, build out a server profile from that, and it just goes."
"It makes it simpler for me to manage my environment. It is one pane of glass, compared to multiple."
"We have been able to give the deployment team what they request more quickly. We are able to quickly deploy what is being asked of us. If the development team needs a platform of 20 servers to run a particular platform, we can give that to them within a day or two."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"Shorter delivery times. Where we now have a delivery time of about six weeks, we hope to go back to days."
"OneView, as a single point, a single management tool, it makes me delirious. It's really nice."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex. From what I was told, there were issues initially with getting the SFPs on the floor for our data center and something with the image, but I think that was on our service provider' side. They couldn't get the image to deploy with the right drivers and stuff."
"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 it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"This solution could be improved by increasing the speed on the conversion adapters. It should be 100 gigs."
"The Synergy platform is HPE-specific and more for on-premises. You're kind of locked in with VMware and the HPE with the VMs. The Nutanix offering is a bit more flexible."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
"The solution does not scale well."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 8th 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 Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Integrity and HPE BladeSystem.
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