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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

"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 added value of Integrity has always been the reliability of the processors and all the parts in the servers."
"The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users."
"It's a very good product to use for medium-sized companies."
"The product's most valuable features are troubleshooting and monitoring."
"This is a reliable server, and many applications are integrated there."
"We need to be able to offer our customers continuous service 24/7, and we are able to do all this with Integrity."
"If one needs a system with first class stability that may be an expensive solution, HPE Integrity is a way to go."
"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."
"The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly with some app deployments."
"Improved storage, scalability, and ease-of-use."
"The scalability is great."
"The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do."
"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."
"The most valuable features of HPE Synergy are the two composers."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
 

Cons

"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."
"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."
"Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365."
"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."
"It is an old technology, so there is not much growth that we can do on it now."
"Pricing is very high. It should be less."
"The quantity of the processor from Integrity, because at this moment there's a limit."
"I think the main issue with Synergy is a topology that HPE defines to connecting and creating a cluster."
"This solution could be improved by increasing the speed on the conversion adapters. It should be 100 gigs."
"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."
"The cost is high or a big investment and that is a drawback for some customers."
"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."
"I rate this solution a seven out of 10 because I think we were promised a little more than we were given."
"ICMs could be better in this model. When you look at its competitors, the most critical point is the throughput. HPE is the best with the ICM module, which is an interconnect module that connects the servers of the frames to the LAN and SAN. HPE Synergy should also support the latest processors provided by Intel."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is the best."
"The price is not very expensive."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"We pay about £500 for the solution."
"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."
"We do CAPEX."
"The biggest cost is the VMware licensing."
"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."
"The cost is high and that is a drawback for some customers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
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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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Home Credit Bank
HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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