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HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Integrity
Ranking in Blade Servers
10th
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
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Integrity is 4.2%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 8.5%, down from 18.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy8.5%
HPE Integrity4.2%
Other87.3%
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

"This is a reliable server, and many applications are integrated there."
"It is very fast and easy to use."
"The stability is pretty good."
"It just keeps on going; we don't have any problems with any HPE equipment, to be fair."
"The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users."
"We currently deployed HP Integrity blade servers; they offer great versatility, redundancy, and a rapid method of deploying multiple virtual guests within 10 minutes."
"HPE Integrity is a mission-critical server, and we are using it for our SAP; we require zero downtime, which is why it is typically used in environments like banks or air traffic control where the downtime requirement is absolute zero."
"If one needs a system with first class stability that may be an expensive solution, HPE Integrity is a way to go."
"If you can get it set up right and get a little bit of expertise in it, it's a wonderful platform."
"Spinning up an environment is much quicker, because I don't have to reconfigure networking and redesign everything from the ground up."
"It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."
"Synergy is first in class for composable infrastructure; it has the scalability that meets our future needs and the automation that builds into something that we are really looking forward to using."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"For temporal use, when you throw on the fact that you're essentially doubling your capacity, right there you could claim a 50 percent TCO reduction."
"For us, it's all about up-time and a good performance experience for our customers and Synergy helps us do that."
"A single unified infrastructure that can be optimized for all workloads via software makes our life easier."
 

Cons

"HPE Integrity is a pain. HPE hasn't put much work into developing the solution in the past few years because it will be discontinued soon."
"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"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."
"Pricing is very high. It should be less."
"We're moving away from Integrity as it's more pricey than the Intels."
"The manageability must be improved."
"The quantity of the processor from Integrity, because at this moment there's a limit."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up."
"The deployment time of a system through OneView is pretty slow, but apparently that's being addressed in an upcoming update."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
"But with other stuff, software stuff especially, say Data Protector - now it's Micro Focus - it was a total nightmare."
"I'd get the firmware to be a little more secure and a little more streamlined."
"Product documentation is disorganized."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"The only issue that we had was our rack was too small. The product is heavy, so it took a lot to get it in there."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"The pricing is the best."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"The price is not very expensive."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."
"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."
"In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
"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."
"We pay about £500 for the solution."
"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare 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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