We performed a comparison between HPE Synergy and Super Micro SuperBlade 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."The solution is built very well. It's very robust and durable."
"It is a good product for hypervisors."
"Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications."
"Improved storage, scalability, and ease-of-use."
"Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me."
"Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"The stability of the solution is very reliable."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"Instead of having Synergy vertical, make it horizontal. It is easier to stick in when it is vertical."
"Because we're using 2012, we're having issues making templates."
"There is always room for improvement. Based on our use cases, I don't believe there are any additional features required."
"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."
"The possibility of using storage directly in the frame in order to have bigger storage directly there, and not having an attached storage like SAN or NAS. That would be helpful."
"One of the issues that we that we have been having is with the firmware baselining. So, we need to just making sure that we get that working. However, we are in the early stages. It may well be that we just tweak a few things."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
"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."
HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 8th in Blade Servers with 4 reviews. HPE Synergy is rated 8.4, while Super Micro SuperBlade is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Super Micro SuperBlade writes "Easy to set up with good technical support but does not scale well". HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Integrity and HPE BladeSystem.
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