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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%
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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."
"The Integrity series combined with the software layer presents an excellent Mission Critical landscape that brings simplicity in a complex landscape to the foreground."
"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."
"We need to be able to offer our customers continuous service 24/7, and we are able to do all this with Integrity."
"The product's most valuable features are troubleshooting and monitoring."
"We use it as a database server for SAP systems, and it is performing very well."
"If one needs a system with first class stability that may be an expensive solution, HPE Integrity is a way to go."
"It's a very good product to use for medium-sized companies."
"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."
"The solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours."
"My team is very happy with the way the product is right now."
"All components in the HPE Synergy solution are redundant; if we experience any downtime in a component, a redundant one is available in our Synergy frame, therefore the downtime and stability for HPE Synergy solution are very good and highly appreciated."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."
"Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me."
"Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications."
 

Cons

"Pricing is very high. It should be less."
"With the announcement last year from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise that they are no longer supporting Itanium 2 processors, which means HP-UX is going to die soon in a couple of years."
"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"It's quite expensive, so we're considering moving some services to Linux services."
"It is an old technology, so there is not much growth that we can do on it now."
"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."
"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."
"Don't do it. Go x86."
"The performance could be better. At times, it could also be more stable."
"It has affected the productivity of our development team in a bad way."
"I've found the user experience to not be that great."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"I am rating this solution an eight (out of ten) because it is really good. However, you can always improve some things."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"Synergy could probably do some code enhancements to simplify the deployment a bit more."
"The biggest lesson learned is knowing what you are connecting Synergy to, because there are caveats there and not everything necessarily plays well with Synergy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is not very expensive."
"The pricing is the best."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"When we made the purchase of the hardware, we added Professional Services to it."
"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 licensing is more around the software for RGS, because we are deploying bare metal installs. It is mainly the operating system and any lights-out management. So, licensing is minimum. We are licensing it annually."
"VMware is part of the cost. We bought the chassis, we bought the solution. The blades are roughly running us $60,000 a pop right now."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"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."
"We do CAPEX."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
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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