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HPE Synergy vs Intel MFSYS25 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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)
Intel MFSYS25
Ranking in Blade Servers
15th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Synergy is 8.5%, down from 17.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Intel MFSYS25 is 3.6%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy8.5%
Intel MFSYS253.6%
Other87.9%
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Featured Reviews

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…
it_user375057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Server Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We're able to set-up multiple VLANs in it.
Hyper V was the best option in case of server fail-over & Storage option was the best with the VD pools assigned to the server modules We have improved a lot, and our customers are very satisfied with the product. We're able to set-up multiple VLANs in it. I think that Intel shouldn't have…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Technical support has been great."
"As a result of the solution, our IT infrastructure is about 60 percent more efficient than it used to be."
"Synergy is much easier to use, which is saving us time. We are able to set the profiles for firmware upgrades. This makes the process for the care and feeding of the IT environment much simpler, quicker, and cleaner."
"The deployment of HPE Synergy is easy and takes approximately three to four hours."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"HPE Synergy is a stable solution."
"Support is very helpful."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"The MFSYS25 is a relatively cheap blade system with a built in "mini" SAN."
"We have improved a lot, and our customers are very satisfied with the product."
 

Cons

"We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate."
"I think that they can improve the update because the update is problematic now. When you want to update the firmware, or when you want to update software on Composer, it takes a lot of time."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"When templates are created, there are some steps where you need to reboot the machines. Being in production, this is not a good idea. For example, if you reconfigure the network, you should not have to reboot the machine. You should just apply the new template and that's it."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement. There is some sort of convoluted spreadsheet that you have to fill in prior to the platform being delivered. It seems a little bit out-of-date and inefficient. Surely, there is some sort of web page configuration tool online that a customer could use. Then, it could be validated by somebody else, like a partner or HPE technical resource, then that would be a lot more efficient."
"They were not so deep into integration with VMware."
"The Intel Switches give very poor performance when mixed with anything else."
"There is one regular error which irritates me during production hours. It continually gives us COMPONENT UNFIT ERROR."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We do CAPEX."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
"When we made the purchase of the hardware, we added Professional Services to it."
"There is a perpetual license given when you purchase HPE Synergy."
"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."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"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

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Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
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Questions from the Community

How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?
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What needs improvement with HPE Synergy?
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