HPE Synergy Scalability
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Gopalakrishnan S
Technical Architect at HCL Technologies
The solution is highly scalable. We can connect multiple enclosures together and increase the number of hosts or blade servers with no issues.
View full review »The solution's signature feature is its scalability.
View full review »We have about ten users on the solution currently. They are specialists.
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HPE Synergy
March 2024
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Wayne Holland
Services Support Supervisor at State of Washington
The scalability is pretty huge. The compute modules and everything in the Synergy system scales up very well. It has much higher speeds and feeds than we had before.
View full review »The solution is scalable with the same switches up to five frames.
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Dan Loftus
Architect at Argos Limited
One of the main reasons that we have invested in Synergy was its scalability capabilities. It hooks back into the toolsets, which means you can manage vast amounts of infrastructure from one place, essentially.
View full review »We have experienced bottlenecks and set backs related to the speed of conversion adapters. There may be some limitations on scalability related to these adapters.
The scalability is fine. We can increase the sizes of the test stores.
I'd rate the solution 6.5 out of ten in terms of scalability.
We have hundreds of people on the product right now.
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TJ1
System admin at Riyad Bank
The tool is scalable. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. There were some limitations on some hardware. Around 8000 people use the product in my organization.
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ManagerI379a
Manager IT Infrastructure at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
It scales really well. We have 15 frames of Synergy with five racks. It has three frames per rack, so it scales really well.
View full review »HPE Synergy is not scalable. If you have a bigger workload or have more invoices, it is not scalable. You need to stay within a certain capacity. We have over 150 users from payroll and accounting using this product.
View full review »We have between 500 and 1,000 users. They are in different regions and different areas, and therefore it is hard to estimate how many people are on the product.
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Vinoth Bala
Senior Engineer at Mannai
The scalability of HPE Synergy is good.
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Brent Beverly
VP Technology at Scalematrix
It's very scalable. We like the idea that we can put four chassis in one of our racks, and we can connect up to 25 chassis, so the scalability to us, and being able to sync all those into one management portal, is unheard of. You can't really sync that many blades and chassis together in any other platform.
View full review »The scalability of HPE Synergy is good.
View full review »There is no problem with the scalability. We haven't had issues. It can scale as needed.
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Varun Lenkala
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are hitting our third Synergy rack and we are buying the fourth. You can go well with it until seven. After seven, you probably need to put another management ring in there. Other than that, it can scale and work exceptionally well.
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Mohammad Alotaibi
IT Director at Kdipa
It is highly scalable.
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Vince DiStasi
CIO at GCC
It easily scales. You can put three frames in a rack and they all interconnect, so it's not an issue there.
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Roger Crane
Systems Engineer at Scientific Games
That is something that we'll be able to test more as we put more in. However, we are definitely looking forward to managing multiple chassis in one environment.
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Laith Aljawamis
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
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Manager7a60
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is highly scalable.
View full review »The solution is scalable for our customers' requirements.
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JasonWilliams
Manager Engineering Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We bought it half loaded with 18 blades, so we can still add 18 blades. That in itself makes it pretty scalable.
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Marina Landeiro
Service Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is very good.
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Technica84fe
Technical Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good.
View full review »In terms of scalability, we're happy with it in general. We look forward to what we can do with it. We believe that it should be able to replace what we've been doing with the C7000s. It mechanically would reduce the number of C7000s that we'd be running. Because we're growing, we still need to add enclosures.
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Patrick Long
Advisor System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
One of the reasons that we purchased Synergy is that it's easily scalable.
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SeniorSe5ba7
Senior Server Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The scalability is pretty good. I think you can take it up to something like 21 frames if you really want to. We'll never have a use for that, but it seems pretty good.
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Lyle May
System Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It is scalable. You can manage with OneView multiple frame sets. We have chosen not to do that right now, but I can see where, as we get bigger, we'll want to implement that and maybe change the frame link up a bit so we can do that. However, we haven't done that right now.
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Willam Adam
SVP Data Technology at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
We like the scalability. being able to drop new nodes into the rack.
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Matthew Ingram
System Engineer at Blue Shield of California
The scalability is good for our size of company. The way we're deploying ESX and the automation that we're doing through OneView, it doesn't matter whether we're trying to add one host or ten new hosts, it takes roughly the same amount of time. So it allows us to scale much quicker than we did previously.
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SeniorInb5e9
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's scalable.
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Michael Rohde
Network Specialist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
It seems to scale nice. We're going to eventually replace all of our c7000 enclosures, but we're not going to end up having nine Synergy enclosures because we're going to gain so much better density. That is a big selling point. With the Gen 10 Blades, we can easily do a 3:1 consolidation, which will help us out a lot down the road.
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Victor-Hernandez
CIO at La Huerta
The solution is very good, but I'm still trying to scale more than I already have.
View full review »Scalability is good, we've got full frames so we've scaled all of our frames all the way up.
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SystemEnd3d1
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
One of the reasons we chose this solution is because it's highly scalable.
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Jarom Petrich
Storage Engineer at Brigham Young University
Obviously, it's very scalable. You're limited to five total - not chassis, they call them something else - but you're limited to five. So it is scalable to a point. But that's where we run into our problems because we need all of our servers in our infrastructure to have access to my storage. We can't segment out storage and have it only available to these five chassis.
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Adam Barthel
Cloud Architecht at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView.
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reviewer1517220
Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is definitely scalable. We have about 2,000 users.
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reviewer1474212
Storage & Backup Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
We didn't run it on a massive scale. We have 60 computing nodes on an eight-blades enclosure. We didn't face any issue so far.
I am not sure about the number of users, but in terms of frames, it is 200K or 200,000. We are happy with this solution. When we need more computing nodes, we will add them as HPE Synergy.
View full review »The solution can scale. We started one project from one basket and we added a second basket without any problems.
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Sheroz Ali
Data Center Implementation Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I have had some issues regarding scalability. It's scalable, however, the thing is we need to purchase hardware. You need to be ready for an investment when scaling.
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reviewer1204020
CEO with 51-200 employees
The solution is extremely scalable. It's one of the highlights of the product for us. If a company needs to expand, it can do so with ease.
It's a data center offering. Whatever applications are installed on there, and, in our case, there are hundreds of applications installed, services all the users.
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St. Claire Mclean
Director of Infrastructure at Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions
The scalability of the solution is similar to the previous c7000.
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SeniorSy4b5d
Senior Systems Engenier at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It is scalable, but it is challenging to scale it. It's not as easy as just putting in another frame.
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ITInfras54a9
IT Infrastructure Manager at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a good platform. It gives us the scalability that we need.
View full review »We're in partial production. It's no longer a PoC. So far, we haven't hit any limits.
The limits are much above what we have used till now.
View full review »Scalability is perfect. It has plenty of network capacity and plenty of space for adding more service as we grow.
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Lee Commins
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good. It's easy to scale out: Throw a blade in there and apply a profile to it and move on.
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Director2039
Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't hit the scale edge of it yet. However, we like what the solution says it will do. There have been some instances where we have overrun some of the software scaling, even without being at a massive hardware scale yet in the network space inside of Synergy. They are working on this, and it is something that we hope will continue.
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reviewer294312
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE Synergy is a scalable composable infrastructure. We have 12 networks and about 1,500 users on the networks.
View full review »The solution scales very well. If a company can expand it, it can do so.
Few people are using it now. Previously, we had many more users. Right now, we may have a few hundred users.
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Informat2839
Information Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
The scalability is good. We were trying to order another system to be able to install at the state data center, and it was very scalable.
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ServerAr942f
Server Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
View full review »On the scalability, it looks like it is right there for us, which is really good.
The scalability is fantastic. It goes from a relatively small size to as large as you want it to go. I've yet to find a customer that couldn't use Synergy to scale to their needs.
Scalability is one of the main advantages. You can scale the different areas, like storage, compute, and memory, to your needs.
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Michael KAPNANG
CEO at DUKSCO SARL
I consider this product extremely scalable. A single view allows for tremendous management capabilities.
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J-J Seely
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The scalability of the solution is excellent.
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ITInfras9484
IT Infrastructure Manager at a import and exporter with 10,001+ employees
It's easily scalable.
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Architecd2ae
Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I love the idea of Synergy and its ability to scale out. Operationally, it is a little bit challenging to manage at this point. When you add onto it, you have to be very aware of where you are in the frame, on your count, and what components. You may have to move a satellite module or you may have to reallocate componentry, which is already there. That scale aspect is challenging. From a hardware perspective, it is not transparent.
From a scalability within existing resources, it is very scalable and much easier to use. E.g., I have deployment requests coming down from some orchestration layer and just need to add available resources and compute.
View full review »Scalability is good. I can take it and move it between two data centers, have one in each data center, and move things back and forth. That's mostly a function of the OS, but the hardware, being as robust as it is, works well.
View full review »The other solutions that we have are scalable as well. At least they are scalable enough for our needs.
View full review »Scalability is one of the benefits of using Synergy. We are able to add and grow without any problems.
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CEO1c1e
CEO at a tech company with 1-10 employees
From a scalability perspective, the platform is great.
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Domenico Vizzoca
Delivery Manager at Harlan Italia
We want to scale in three frames this year, we suppose, because they want to change everything in the datacenter. They want to put everything on Synergy. Synergy with integration with monitoring software, and Docker. So, we wanted to do this.
Scalability seems very promising, due to the architecture. We only have one frame, but from what I understand having gone through a lot of training, it seems like it's going be a good, scalable product.
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ITInfras8f24
IT Infrastructure Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Just considering how we're using it, we are really using it for the bare bones infrastructure. I think if we were using Synergy in probably the way that most teams or organizations were expected to use it, it probably scales a lot better for us because we are looking at it the bare bones CPU memory and how it works.
Scaling is difficult, but that's always going to be the case.
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Sandeep TK
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
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reviewer1136874
System Integration Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I wouldn't describe this solution as scalable as it is hardware. It's scalable inside the chassis. However, I have not tried to scale it yet. I don't really have experience in this aspect.
We have four clients that are currently using the solution.
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MohammadSoltani
Chief Technical Officer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The scalability is very complex. In Cisco, you connect everything to fabric interconnect. You can attain the blades on their fabric interconnect so scalability is one of main issues in Synergy.
Our impression of the scalability is very good in terms of Composer and virtual connects, since you need only two of each for multiple frames.
View full review »It will probably be with us for a lot of years to come. We are still in the process of buying the first one, so maybe we're not going to use the full ring architecture from the beginning, but in the future, since we're going to have just Synergy and not the old blade systems, it's definitely a possibility.
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Strahil Peev
Storage and System Administrator in IT Operations Department at Puzzel | Solving Customer Interactions
The scalability of HPE Synergy is okay. All our departments with about 300 users are using this solution.
View full review »From what I've tested, it looks scalable.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »We haven't had to scale yet.
View full review »We did not try to scale the solution.
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HPE Synergy
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about HPE Synergy. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.