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HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

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

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Integrity is 4.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 8.6%, down from 19.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy8.6%
HPE Integrity4.0%
Other87.4%
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

"The added value of Integrity has always been the reliability of the processors and all the parts in the servers."
"HPE Integrity is a reliable solution, but you'll need to refurbish the hardware because it's approaching the end of sale."
"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 tool provides good performance and productivity."
"We use it as a database server for SAP systems, and it is performing very well."
"The Integrity is the most reliable server that I have."
"The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users."
"If one needs a system with first class stability that may be an expensive solution, HPE Integrity is a way to go."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"We were able to reduce our turnaround time on some of our projects, from upwards of three or four days down to a couple of hours."
"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."
"The benefit is that it's going to be maintained, contrary to what we had last year, when the maintenance went off for the last generation of the servers that we had there."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly, I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"This is a robust, stable, scalable solution."
"The module is quite good and very cost effective for production."
"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."
 

Cons

"Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365."
"The manageability must be improved."
"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."
"It is an old technology, so there is not much growth that we can do on it now."
"Blade system backplane is SPOF."
"We're moving away from Integrity as it's more pricey than the Intels."
"Don't do it. Go x86."
"HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication."
"I've found the user experience to not be that great."
"That means you're managing and you're monitoring your networking, your compute, your storage from it, but not everything works."
"One of the things that I would like to see, and could be in their road map, is getting virtual connect to 100 Gig throughput."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades."
"I would like the ability to take the storage tray that is in a chassis and share it out to multiple chassis, not just the servers within the same chassis. This would be more efficient with resources."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"The pricing is the best."
"The price is not very expensive."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."
"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."
"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
"The biggest cost is the VMware licensing."
"The price point is a little high. We were able to get a good deal on a promotion, to go with it. It would be nice to see the prices come down a little bit."
"When we made the purchase of the hardware, we added Professional Services to it."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction 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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Sample Customers

Home Credit Bank
HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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