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HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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 August 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 8.8%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy8.8%
HPE Integrity3.9%
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

"We use it as a database server for SAP systems, and it is performing very well."
"Except running Oracle on Integrity servers, its ROI is well justified in customer environments."
"We need to be able to offer our customers continuous service 24/7, and we are able to do all this with Integrity."
"It's a very good product to use for medium-sized companies."
"The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users."
"It just keeps on going; we don't have any problems with any HPE equipment, to be fair."
"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."
"The Integrity series combined with the software layer presents an excellent Mission Critical landscape that brings simplicity in a complex landscape to the foreground."
"The centralized management of HPE Synergy is beneficial because it is easy to manage and administer."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
"The key advantage that we teach people is speed to market, or speed to productivity, thus, reducing the time it takes to provision business services."
"The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView."
"The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly with some app deployments."
"The insert RAM feature is the most valuable, and it is a simple software to integrate with others like service desk applications and engine management."
"I love the satellite architecture for the Virtual Connect. I think this is great. I love the storage drawer, which you can present volumes to any compute node within the same frame."
"Technical support has been knowledgeable."
 

Cons

"It's quite expensive, so we're considering moving some services to Linux services."
"Don't do it. Go x86."
"The virtualization of HPE Integrity could be simplified. We have discussed this issue with HPE and hopefully, they will have an update."
"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."
"Pricing is very high. It should be less."
"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."
"The manageability must be improved."
"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"The solution must concentrate on improving the product quality."
"The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back."
"A big thing for me is moving InfoSight for ProLiant into OneView, or at least connecting it. Today we have to use the iLO Amplifier Pack and that would require us to reconfigure iLO on every single one of the servers, independently, to get that data into InfoSight. We're really looking for a single control and management plane."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"The initial setup was quite complex and it is being done by the HPE support department."
"In the Generation 10 modules, we have observed that very often the server has hardware issues."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"The pricing is the best."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"The price is not very expensive."
"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
"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."
"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."
"The cost is high and that is a drawback for some customers."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"There is a perpetual license given when you purchase HPE Synergy."
"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."
"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

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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