"The cost benefit of this solution is most valuable. It is quite effective for the work for which we are using it. We are mainly running video servers on these, and we are quite happy with the resilience, density storage, and streaming capacity of the system."
"HPE Apollo's most valuable feature is the ability to expand our storage capacity."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"For me, this is the best frame server technology available in the market. We can compare it to Cisco UCS. It is robust and stable, and it is also easy to deploy and scale. Their support is the best."
"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."
"In terms of the productivity of our deployment team, the amount of time has been decreased a lot. In the past, to deploy one c7000 chassis with 15 or 16 blades, we literally used to spend two to three weeks. But with a Synergy, it's very quick. Within three days we can do the deployment."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"The solution is built very well. It's very robust and durable."
"The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks."
"We are quite happy with it, but its price and storage density can be better."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"The profiles aren't so easy to work with."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"The only good thing is that they have some powerful machines that you can use, such as the latest generations of HPE Compute that you can use."
"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."
"Its management needs some work. It is not the best in terms of management. It has decent management. Its user interface can also be better."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"The performance could be better. The converged network cards initially didn't work. However, later on in the newer version, they came up with 50 GB network cards to replace the 20 GB ones, and it's perfectly fine now. At times, it could also be more stable."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."
HPE Apollo is ranked 2nd in Density Optimized Servers with 3 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 12 reviews. HPE Apollo is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Apollo writes "Easy to maintain, cost-effective, scalable, and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Significantly decreases deployment time and the number of support issues". HPE Apollo is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Dell PowerEdge FX, IBM Power Systems and Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, Lenovo Flex System and HPE Superdome X.
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