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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 April 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Integrity is 3.6%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 10.6%, down from 22.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy10.6%
HPE Integrity3.6%
Other85.8%
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.
MR
Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech
Redundant components and single console management improve efficiency while high costs warrant attention
Regarding HPE Synergy, the most valuable feature is that the whole solution and the whole system operate in passive mode, and there are very few chances of downtime as all the components in HPE Synergy are redundant, including VC Flex modules and interconnect modules, as well as power supply and fan modules. Other networking and storage connectivity modules are also redundant, and we can mount the entire Synergy frame in a single rack. If we fully populate a Synergy frame with 12 servers, 12 physical machines could be mounted in one Synergy frame, mostly with redundant power supplies and networking ports along with SAN connectivity on a single console.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 stability is pretty good."
"We use it as a database server for SAP systems, and it is performing very well."
"The added value of Integrity has always been the reliability of the processors and all the parts in the servers."
"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."
"It is very fast and easy to use."
"The product's most valuable features are troubleshooting and monitoring."
"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 manageability is its most valuable feature. It is a fully managed platform, which is very simple to manage."
"It's a fully integrated solution with OneView."
"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."
"It helps us manage our IT landscape because it is easy, standard, and very consolidated."
"The composable infrastructure allows us to build our own server profiles, then build up the infrastructure that we need from compute modules."
"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."
"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."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
 

Cons

"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"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."
"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."
"The manageability must be improved."
"Don't do it. Go x86."
"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."
"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."
"We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work."
"The networking part is very complex; it should be simplified."
"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 Synergy frame."
"But with other stuff, software stuff especially, say Data Protector - now it's Micro Focus - it was a total nightmare."
"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."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. It's for admins, and you should have the knowledge to use it."
"One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"The price is not very expensive."
"The pricing is the best."
"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"We outright purchased Synergy."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."
"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."
"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."
"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
"In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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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