HPE Synergy Stability
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Gopalakrishnan S
Technical Architect at HCL Technologies
The solution is very stable.
View full review »From a hardware point of view, the solution's memory discs and connectivity are quite stable.
The solution's stability is dependent on the software used. HPE partners with vendors to provide memory modules and Hynix disks from Seagate or Western Digital and they are quite stable. If you have stability issues, they are likely caused by a software problem.
Past firmware issues have been fixed with a package release.
On very rare occasion you might have a broken CPU or defective memory modules but I have only experienced that a few times in my entire career that spans many solutions.
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Wayne Holland
Services Support Supervisor at State of Washington
For the most part, the stability is really good. We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate.
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HPE Synergy
March 2024
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The product is stable and redundant.
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Dan Loftus
Architect at Argos Limited
So far, the stability has been good. It has been rock solid.
View full review »This is a stable solution. There are a lot of server updates which require down time on each machine and each blade. The release cycle should be more frequent and offer additional features.
View full review »It's a stable, reliable product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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TJ1
System admin at Riyad Bank
The tool is stable. I rate the product’s stability a seven or eight out of ten. We faced a few hardware failures.
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ManagerI379a
Manager IT Infrastructure at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
It is not very stable because of the image streaming and the issues that we had with it, which were more software-based. The hardware is very stable. The software which runs the hardware part is where we had our biggest problems with it.
View full review »The solution is stable. It has been running for 15 years.
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Vinoth Bala
Senior Engineer at Mannai
HPE Synergy is stable.
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Brent Beverly
VP Technology at Scalematrix
It's stable. It hasn't given us a problem yet. No outages.
View full review »HPE Synergy is a stable solution.
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Varun Lenkala
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
No major outages. We have had a few small issues here and there but that's about it.
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Mohammad Alotaibi
IT Director at Kdipa
It is very stable. We never had any issues with it.
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Vince DiStasi
CIO at GCC
It's been very stable. We've had no issues. It's been rock-solid.
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Roger Crane
Systems Engineer at Scientific Games
It has been very stable. We have no issues with the ones that we have in production.
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Laith Aljawamis
Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE Synergy is very stable.
View full review »The solution is quite stable.
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JasonWilliams
Manager Engineering Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable after the initial setup. We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans.
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Marina Landeiro
Service Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable. We haven't had any problems with it.
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Technica84fe
Technical Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back.
We still have some questions regarding the stability of the platform.
View full review »We are currently testing stability. The beta system had some issues. They were supposed to fix them as they came up in production and we'll confirm that when we get to it.
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reviewer1204020
CEO with 51-200 employees
We have the stability to be reliable. The performance is good. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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Patrick Long
Advisor System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution has been quite stable for us, so far. There have been a number of updates and the product is still going through a maturity cycle, so I expect that the stability will continue.
For the most part, our developers are not aware of the underlying infrastructure on which they're doing the work, but that’s probably a good thing because if they were aware then it may be for bad reasons. We’ve had a lot of success with continuous uptime on these boxes, so it’s not really noticed by our developers.
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SeniorSe5ba7
Senior Server Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is pretty good. We had a DIMM fail from ECC memory. We didn't have any outage. It just isolated it off to the side. We have the remote support set up so they opened a ticket and had a guy out to us at 7:00 in the morning.
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Lyle May
System Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
We haven't really had any problems once it was set up. The initial installation can sometimes be problematic.
We have had some weird issues with the networking and interfaces. We had an interface where if it was the first interface to join a LAG group it wouldn't come up, but if it joined second, third, or fourth, then it worked fine. We still haven't figured that one out.
The amount of time that it takes to update the entire configuration because it has to go and update so much stuff: It takes quite a long time. Then, the potential for downtime when you do that is also problematic, especially if you don't have a full three or five frame set that you are working with. If you are going from one frame to two frames or two frames to three frames there is a potential for downtime there. So, we have opted to go to full stacks when we implement them.
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Willam Adam
SVP Data Technology at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
So far, it has been very stable. We've only had to reboot it once.
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Matthew Ingram
System Engineer at Blue Shield of California
We've had quite a few issues with stability on this system, with the Gen10 blades - with memory specifically. It's been problematic.
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SeniorInb5e9
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's pretty stable. We wouldn't have bought it otherwise.
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Michael Rohde
Network Specialist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
So far, it has been very stable. However, it is a small sample size.
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Victor-Hernandez
CIO at La Huerta
The solution is very stable.
View full review »Stability is great. The system functions in a high-availability mode, so we've done updates and stayed online. It's great for us.
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SystemEnd3d1
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Once this solution is implemented, it is very stable.
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Jarom Petrich
Storage Engineer at Brigham Young University
It is very stable. We didn't have any problems with the stability at all.
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Adam Barthel
Cloud Architecht at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my experience, HPE has always been highly available and highly reliable. I would expect Synergy to be nothing less.
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reviewer1517220
Information Technology System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1474212
Storage & Backup Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable.
View full review »The solution is stable and reliable. There were no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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Sheroz Ali
Data Center Implementation Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The product offers good stability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable and the performance is good.
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St. Claire Mclean
Director of Infrastructure at Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions
The stability is great. We haven't had any issues with it so far.
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SeniorSy4b5d
Senior Systems Engenier at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It is fairly stable.
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ITInfras54a9
IT Infrastructure Manager at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability has been great. We haven't had any major outages so far. We are still on some of the older BladeSystem c7000 enclosures. We're moving to Synergy although we've yet to move everything completely on to them. But so far, Synergy has been good and stable.
View full review »As far as I can see, it's stable but, as I said, we have only been using it for six months.
View full review »The system operates well and allows changes to be made with confidence. We have been through a OneView version upgrade and the deployment of firmware into the Virtual Connect components and the Servers without any downtime. This is the way it should be!
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Lee Commins
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is great.
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Director2039
Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Stability-wise, it has been pretty good. When we are doing maintenance events. we have had some hiccups. We have definitely lost redundancy. There was one incident where we had everything go down. For the most part, what we are observing is the redundancy in the platform is working reasonably well. With the upgrades, we are just losing redundancy.
We're not expecting it to go down. Our expectation is we will run our workload 100 percent of time, even while we're upgrading the platform. In some instances, that's happened, and in the ones that it hasn't, it is definitely a bug that the HPE team is trying to address.
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reviewer294312
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
HPE Synergy is stable.
View full review »The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It does not crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance is great.
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Informat2839
Information Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
So far, it has been really stable for three years.
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ServerAr942f
Server Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is very good. We haven't had any outages.
View full review »It seems to be really stable. We did blow one hardware model, but I think that was just a build issue. Other than that, it has been very stable.
View full review »Stability is fantastic at this point. I think it's come a long way. I think with the latest versions, especially the new version coming out in December, it's been fantastic and we're looking forward to it.
At this moment, stability is still good. HPE support helped us with the implementations, because we were the first customer in Europe who bought one of these. They were really helpful in getting us running.
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Michael KAPNANG
CEO at DUKSCO SARL
I have not been using high speed for long enough to give an adequate rating of the product's stability.
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J-J Seely
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The solution is very stable. Early on we had firmware issues but those have gone away. It's moving forward very nicely.
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ITInfras9484
IT Infrastructure Manager at a import and exporter with 10,001+ employees
It's absolutely reliable. Zero outages.
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Architecd2ae
Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In the past, there has been some question around the stability of networking components of it. It has been a long time since HPE has had a significant server issue, but from the networking component and newer networking components, there have been significant improvements from the past.
View full review »So far, the stability is good and it's running fine. I can't complain.
View full review »Also not a big point. It's stable, but all the other solutions we have are stable as well, so this is not a main point.
View full review »The stability so far is good. We did the PoC in February and we are going to get into production in June. We have been running tests and it has been stable. We had some issues in the initial setup, but basically it's what we expect from HPE. We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work. It took about two weeks to fix the issue.
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CEO1c1e
CEO at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The stability is poor. It's a relatively young product and the management solution that drives the product shows its signs of immaturity. There is a new version being released this week. Things are getting better but they need to get better more quickly.
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Domenico Vizzoca
Delivery Manager at Harlan Italia
It became stable the second time. The first time, it wasn't. We had some problems but they're solved, and now it's stable.
It is still too early to tell, but so far, stability has been good.
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ITInfras8f24
IT Infrastructure Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It seems pretty stable. We haven't had any issues that I'm aware of. We have not had any outages.
View full review »Synergy is new, but the advantage is that technically, it's a ProLiant server, so it is stable. Proven technology with a lot of new features.
View full review »We have no issues with stability.
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Sandeep TK
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1136874
System Integration Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
The product is mostly stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. I haven't had any issues with the hardware. It's a well-built product and it's durable.
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MohammadSoltani
Chief Technical Officer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Although the setup is complex, once it's up and running, the product is stable.
View full review »This solution is very stable.
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Strahil Peev
Storage and System Administrator in IT Operations Department at Puzzel | Solving Customer Interactions
The stability of HPE Synergy is okay.
View full review »I cannot say. I would need to test it in a proper environment.
Right now, it's stable. But we have only had it for five months, three months in proof of concept and two months in production. But we haven't have any issues up until now.
We haven't had issues with stability because we're using 2012.
View full review »It is stable. It protects against crashes.
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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.