HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

HPE Integrity and HPE Synergy are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. HPE Integrity is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5, while HPE Synergy is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5. HPE Integrity holds a 3.6% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to HPE Synergy’s 10.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of HPE Integrity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of HPE Synergy users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

HPE Integrity and HPE Synergy are prominent players in the enterprise server market. Although HPE Integrity is known for its strong support and competitive pricing, HPE Synergy is often regarded as the more advanced option due to its innovative features and adaptability.

Features: HPE Integrity is valued for its stability, robust performance, and suitability for mission-critical tasks requiring uninterrupted service. It excels in reliability, scalability, and ease of use. HPE Synergy shines with its modular architecture and flexibility, allowing seamless integration with cloud environments and hybrid IT strategies. Its composable infrastructure and central management via HPE OneView enhance its adaptability, enabling scalable and efficient resource utilization.

Room for Improvement: HPE Integrity can improve by advancing its adaptability and ease of integration with modern IT environments, increasing modularity, and optimizing resource scaling capabilities. HPE Synergy could enhance its initial complexity and cost, simplify the composability concept for broader understanding, and further integrate with existing infrastructures to ease migration processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Integrity follows a traditional deployment model, often requiring skilled personnel and more time, yet it boasts excellent customer support services. In contrast, HPE Synergy offers faster deployment with a user-friendly management interface, providing intuitive and streamlined operations, making it appealing for businesses seeking operational agility.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Integrity involves notable upfront costs but often yields strong long-term ROI for large and stable operations. HPE Synergy, while possibly more expensive initially, promises faster ROI due to its efficient resource management and reduced operational costs, justifying its price with accelerated value generation.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Integrity

Ranking in Blade Servers

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

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

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
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Synergy	10.6%
HPE Integrity	3.6%
Other	85.8%

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Jason Quartey

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.

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Mohsin Rasheed

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It just keeps on going; we don't have any problems with any HPE equipment, to be fair."

"As a summary, I would say it's been the best high availability platform that HP has produced, at least that we have been able to use and forward to our customers with the highest service level availability."

"HPE Integrity is a reliable solution, but you'll need to refurbish the hardware because it's approaching the end of sale."

"This is a reliable server, and many applications are integrated there."

"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."

"We currently deployed HP Integrity blade servers; they offer great versatility, redundancy, and a rapid method of deploying multiple virtual guests within 10 minutes."

"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."

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"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."

"HPE has proven track records worldwide delivering superb support on hard- and software."

"The stability of the solution is very reliable."

"The solution is very stable; there are no bugs or glitches, it does not crash or freeze, and the performance is great."

"OneView, as a single point, a single management tool, it makes me delirious. It's really nice."

"The density and the flexibility that it provides are the most valuable features."

"The initial setup is fine."

"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."

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Cons

"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."

"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."

"HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication."

"Pricing is very high."

"The quantity of the processor from Integrity, because at this moment there's a limit."

"I don't know if Integrity will survive too much because if the Itanium processors are not going to be supportive anymore, I think in the midterm (4 or 5 years), Integrity's going to be replaced by another product line."

"The virtualization of HPE Integrity could be simplified. We have discussed this issue with HPE and hopefully, they will have an update."

"Don't do it. Go x86."

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"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."

"You can always improve some things."

"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."

"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades."

"They have not improved their product since it was purchased."

"The speed in OneView and how it updates the entire configuration needs improvement. If they can do that, and it could be a little more clear on what impact different actions will have for certain things, that would be good."

"I would like the ability to have my storage components accessed from any other frame across the backplane."

"Technical support for this solution has a very good initial response; however, escalation takes time, and most of the time the first level of support cannot solve your case."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."

"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."

"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."

"The price is not very expensive."

"The pricing is the best."

"We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."

"It costs us around $60,000 a year."

"In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."

"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."

"We pay about £500 for the solution."

"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."

"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."

"We are satisfied with its price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Marketing Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	31
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Integrity?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

HP Integrity Superdome , HP Integrity, SGI Altix

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Overview

HP Integrity solutions provide an unparalleled portfolio of resilient systems for mission-critical environments. When availability matters, the new HP Integrity NonStop X enables you to stay ahead of your competition by mitigating the risk of downtime and effortlessly meeting your business processing, OLTP, and database requirements all with an industry-standard x86 architecture.

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HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

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Sample Customers

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