We performed a comparison between HPE Superdome X and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it."
"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."
"This product is very reliable."
"We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."
"I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."
"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."
"Superdome X is a system that can compete in terms of performance and uptime, but it's now standard. That is the great value. There are competitors like IBM, for example, but IBM has a propietary operating system. With Superdome X, you have a system that can run Windows, Red Hat, or VMware, but in a mission critical server."
"Cable management is a big feature, in addition to time to deployment. We can buy a new server and have it up and running very quickly."
"The initial setup is straightforward. The infrastructures as code enables you to fill out the configuration before you even deploy it, then it is just a one-touch deployment."
"On the previous HPE platform, we struggled because everything was independent. We had to manage firmware on each server, storage and network configuration on each server. Synergy is template-driven so we can ensure consistency of all of those settings. It allows us to standardize configuration and ensure consistency across the board."
"Changing the form factor in Synergy allows us to have more RAM, which is significantly helpful for us."
"HPE Synergy is a stable solution."
"We build out a whole stack at one time, so we don't have to worry about it until that stack is full, then that gives us time to get the next one ready."
"The most valuable features are the evolution of our existing HPE portfolio, the integration with our existing tool sets, and the enhanced capabilities that OneView bring."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud."
"What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver.""
"I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."
"In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful."
"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."
"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."
"I'd like to see the firmware updates, as well as the built-in OneView and imager in Composer, become a little more powerful and faster."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"The performance could be better. The converged network cards initially didn't work. However, later on in the newer version, they came up with 50 GB network cards to replace the 20 GB ones, and it's perfectly fine now. At times, it could also be more stable."
"I think we were promised a little more than we were given. It's true, they are working very hard to try to help remedy that."
"The initial setup was complex. From what I was told, there were issues initially with getting the SFPs on the floor for our data center and something with the image, but I think that was on our service provider' side. They couldn't get the image to deploy with the right drivers and stuff."
"There is always room for improvement. Based on our use cases, I don't believe there are any additional features required."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
HPE Superdome X is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 11 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. HPE Superdome X is rated 9.0, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Superdome X writes "Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". HPE Superdome X is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, HPE NonStop, Lenovo Flex System and HPE Integrity, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and HPE ProLiant DL Servers.
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