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HPE Synergy vs Supermicro SuperBlade comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 20, 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 Synergy
Ranking in Blade Servers
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
Supermicro SuperBlade
Ranking in Blade Servers
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.8%, up from 21.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Supermicro SuperBlade is 5.6%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

CarlosArdila - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps grow horizontally or vertically within one box or chassis
The initial setup is very easy. We deployed this in two days, including installation, system setup, firmware upgrades, configuration, and network connection. By the next day, we were already deploying virtual machines. We initially began with the Blade system. As the migration to SAP HANA approached, it seemed prudent to upgrade our hardware. Consequently, we facilitated their transition from the Blade system to Synergy. Subsequently, we collaborated closely with the SAP consultancy company to oversee the migration process, ensuring seamless integration of all workloads and sub-environments. We have four people working on the deployment, including a project manager, two specialists, and one tech support.
Gergely Lakos - PeerSpot reviewer
With many servers in one, these blade servers are easier to manage
The service could be improved by faster servers, more widely available VMs, and more storage in one place. Then, in the event of a blade failure, we could start our VMs on another blade in a couple of minutes. This is why we wanted to buy storage. But now, we want to buy a twin server with 24 VMware discs to create test storage. The next product release should allow more servers to be controlled simultaneously.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"OneView is head and shoulders above the competition in this space."
"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."
"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."
"It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly."
"The benefit is that it's going to be maintained, contrary to what we had last year, when the maintenance went off for the last generation of the servers that we had there."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"It 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.​"
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
 

Cons

"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
"HPE Synergy could improve by developing the chassis to allow for more drives or disks. Currently, it supports only two drives in the blade server, which can be limiting."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"A big thing for me is moving InfoSight for ProLiant into OneView, or at least connecting it. Today we have to use the iLO Amplifier Pack and that would require us to reconfigure iLO on every single one of the servers, independently, to get that data into InfoSight. We're really looking for a single control and management plane."
"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."
"Instead of having Synergy vertical, make it horizontal. It is easier to stick in when it is vertical."
"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."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"The solution does not scale well."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."
"When we made the purchase of the hardware, we added Professional Services to it."
"There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."
"We outright purchased Synergy."
"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."
"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
"VMware is part of the cost. We bought the chassis, we bought the solution. The blades are roughly running us $60,000 a pop right now."
"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."
"The product is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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 do you like most about HPE Synergy?
It is a good product for hypervisors.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?
Pricing in the blade server market is very competitive, with HPE offering a competitive price. Competitor products include Dell's MX series and Cisco's UCS X series.
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Sample Customers

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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