We performed a comparison between HPE Blade system and HPE Synergy based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Synergy is a better choice. Our reviewers find that Synergy offers better support, stability and scalability, and it is worth the complex setup.
"Remote management features are valuable."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"It is not expensive."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"The technical support is good."
"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"The single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler."
"We have more control over the firmware and how we are managing our physical servers."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
"On the previous HPE platform, we struggled because everything was independent. We had to manage firmware on each server, storage and network configuration on each server. Synergy is template-driven so we can ensure consistency of all of those settings. It allows us to standardize configuration and ensure consistency across the board."
"The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly, by using the Composer for efficiency. It has also improved the productivity of our development team due to the efficiency of being able to deploy via Composer."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"I think we were promised a little more than we were given. It's true, they are working very hard to try to help remedy that."
"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."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"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."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement. There is some sort of convoluted spreadsheet that you have to fill in prior to the platform being delivered. It seems a little bit out-of-date and inefficient. Surely, there is some sort of web page configuration tool online that a customer could use. Then, it could be validated by somebody else, like a partner or HPE technical resource, then that would be a lot more efficient."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"They have not improved their product since it was purchased."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple 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". HPE BladeSystem is most compared with Cisco UCS B-Series, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE Superdome X and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy report.
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