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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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