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HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE Integrity
Ranking in Blade Servers
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Synergy
Ranking in Blade Servers
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Integrity is 3.9%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 9.0%, down from 20.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy9.0%
HPE Integrity3.9%
Other87.1%
Blade Servers
 

Featured Reviews

JQ
Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Robust security layers have supported mission-critical banking and protected sensitive data
Where I have not really enjoyed is the flexibility of doing things. You are just in a straitjacket with what they give you. The flexibility of doing things is limited compared to other platforms. The backup and restore features on that module were a bit old. I couldn't create a snapshot and provision a server in minutes. The VM features that I can use now easily were not that easy with HPE Integrity and were not even available for us. I had a lot of interaction with HPE Integrity and wanted to move to a different platform for a different experience. I did not see any products matching the Dell PowerFlex environment in terms of server capabilities when it comes to HPE Integrity. We are now using Oracle products and Oracle Data Guard. Oracle on HPE Integrity was a bit more difficult because you have to get separate patches, separate tunables, and separate kernel settings for HPE Integrity. Everything was so proprietary on HPE Integrity, making it difficult to have one solution. The Dell Linux environment with Oracle Linux OS now will be much easier.
MS
Works at Saudi Telecom Company
Manage servers efficiently with an integrated view while reducing downtime
My use case is to serve the complete IT environment of the telecom, including all cloud applications. I use HPE Synergy servers for my private cloud and for network management systems. 70% of my workload is running on HPE servers The integrated view, such as managing complete servers and…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We currently deployed HP Integrity blade servers; they offer great versatility, redundancy, and a rapid method of deploying multiple virtual guests within 10 minutes."
"The Integrity is the most reliable server that I have."
"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."
"It's very reliable, efficient, and strong, and at the time that we used it, it was scalable so we were able to put as much CPU as I wanted up to 64."
"As a summary, I would say it's been the best high availability platform that HP has produced, at least that we have been able to use and forward to our customers with the highest service level availability."
"It's a very good product to use for medium-sized companies."
"If one needs a system with first class stability that may be an expensive solution, HPE Integrity is a way to go."
"When it comes to high-fault tolerance, HPE Integrity is very good, and we have had very good experience with the integrity of the servers for mission-critical functions and high-fault tolerance."
"The solution has decreased our deployment time by 10 to 20 percent."
"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."
"So far it runs as expected, which is really a nice surprise for me."
"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."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"We needed to move forward, so we could have a platform that we could rely on for the next ten or so years, something that we could go and deploy, taking advantage of all the functions that it has."
"We use the Synergy Frame to host the main infrastructure for a big project, and the uptime and the performance meet our expectations, plus the integration with 3PAR is very good."
"We're able to provision different applications, different demonstrations, add cloud-like speeds on-prem, which is unheard of in the industry."
 

Cons

"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."
"We're moving away from Integrity as it's more pricey than the Intels."
"It's quite expensive, so we're considering moving some services to Linux services."
"The manageability must be improved."
"The monitoring is an area that needs some improvement."
"HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication."
"I don't know if Integrity will survive too much because if the Itanium processors are not going to be supportive anymore, I think in the midterm (4 or 5 years), Integrity's going to be replaced by another product line."
"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"The profiles aren't so easy to work with."
"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."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"I would like more storage with this solution, because we still need 3PAR or other storage outside the box for the amount of data that we have."
"I would like to see support for other vendors’ hardware."
"Synergy could probably do some code enhancements to simplify the deployment a bit more."
"ICMs could be better in this model. When you look at its competitors, the most critical point is the throughput. HPE is the best with the ICM module, which is an interconnect module that connects the servers of the frames to the LAN and SAN. HPE Synergy should also support the latest processors provided by Intel."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"The pricing is the best."
"The price is not very expensive."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"We are satisfied with its price."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"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 solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs by 50 percent."
"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Marketing Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Integrity?
Where I have not really enjoyed is the flexibility of doing things. You are just in a straitjacket with what they give you. The flexibility of doing things is limited compared to other platforms. T...
What is your primary use case for HPE Integrity?
We are still working with HP products, specifically HPE Integrity servers. We are about to migrate this year to Dell. For Unix, because we are using Unix now, we're going to move to Linux on that p...
What advice do you have for others considering HPE Integrity?
Data protection and application support features are important considerations. My total experience has been seven out of ten. Regarding disaster recovery, we just have the servers that we configure...
How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?
As far as the prices are concerned, rack mount solutions are less expensive than HPE Synergy prices; however, HPE Synergy prices are higher but justify themselves as the solution accommodates all t...
What needs improvement with HPE Synergy?
In my opinion, for future improvements in HPE Synergy, there should be better management of power consumption complexity as well as an increase in the number of servers that can fit in a single Syn...
 

Also Known As

HP Integrity Superdome , HP Integrity, SGI Altix
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Home Credit Bank
HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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