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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.
To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The initial setup is easy.""It's great for managing overall infrastructure.""The networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable.""The solution integrated well.""The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support.""The solution is made with high-quality hardware.""It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website.""The most valuable feature of Dell PowerEdge M is iDRAC."

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"Synergy is much easier to use, which is saving us time. We are able to set the profiles for firmware upgrades. This makes the process for the care and feeding of the IT environment much simpler, quicker, and cleaner.""Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions.""It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s.""Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications.""The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity.""They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer.""This is above and beyond anything else any of the competitors have on the market. If you're researching this, you're going down the right path.""I like that it's suitable for virtualization. It's also stable and scalable. The newer version has a lot of memory, and you don't have to worry about updates."

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Cons
"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.""Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution.""Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it.""The firmware updates for the product need improvement.""In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option.""I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers.""Technical support is not good.""More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."

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"Changes to the solution are quite complex.""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 profiles aren't so easy to work with.""Over the two years of using HPE Synergy, we have found some hardware failures that are frequent in the SOP models, CNA cards, and converged network adapters. These failures are frequently happening for a lot of the customers.""The lowest echelon of HPE technical support is sadly uninformed, unknowledgeable, and dependent on wrote scripts. They won't answer a question without going through their script. It's not like you're actually talking to somebody who has any depth or time using any of the equipment.""Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly.""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.""We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It was budget friendly."
  • "If we would not have gone with the vendor we might have been charged unnecessarily for packages we did not need."
  • "Dell PowerEdge M price is comparable to other solutions but cheaper than IBM. However, the IBM solution is a higher grade solution whereas Dell PowerEdge M is a medium-level solution."
  • "The pricing of PowerEdge Next is higher than it was before."
  • "The product is neither expensive nor cheap. It is manageable for medium enterprises as well."
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  • "The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
  • "The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."
  • "In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
  • "The biggest cost is the VMware licensing."
  • "We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."
  • "There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."
  • "Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
  • "We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website.
    Top Answer:The product is neither expensive nor cheap. It is manageable for medium enterprises as well.
    Top Answer:The firmware updates for the product need improvement.
    Top Answer: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 it… more »
    Top Answer:It is a good product for hypervisors.
    Top Answer:You have to propose Synergy with your customer base.
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    Overview

    The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers address the challenges of an evolving IT environment by delivering leading enterprise classfeatures and functionality. The M-Series delivers a unique array of options configured to meet the needs of your IT environment both now and in the future.

    • Multiple blade form-factor choices.
    • Long life cycle providing better life cycle management and improved TCO.
    • Modular I/O switches for future scalability.
    • Breakthrough fan technologies for reduction in power consumption.
    • Configuration management via chassis management controller.
    • Persistent MAC/WWN/iSCSI addresses in a switch-agnostic environment.

    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
    Newport City Homes, Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC), Georgian College, AgreeYa Solutions, IIHT Cloud Solutions, Arizona State University, AudienceScience, University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Holy Cross School
    HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Hospitality Company13%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Retailer9%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
    Buyer's Guide
    Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 13 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.6, 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 Lenovo Flex System. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.

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