Senior Executive Manager - Data Center Virtualization at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 9, 2023
The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component.
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 23, 2021
I like that it's suitable for virtualization. It's also stable and scalable. The newer version has a lot of memory, and you don't have to worry about updates.
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
In terms of the productivity of our deployment team, the amount of time has been decreased a lot. In the past, to deploy one c7000 chassis with 15 or 16 blades, we literally used to spend two to three weeks. But with a Synergy, it's very quick. Within three days we can do the deployment.
IT Infrastructure Manager at a import and exporter with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly, by using the Composer for efficiency. It has also improved the productivity of our development team due to the efficiency of being able to deploy via Composer.
Director of Infrastructure at Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
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.
Services Support Supervisor at State of Washington
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
The single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler.
IT Infrastructure Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
It is helping us sort of bridge a gap that we are having moving off of old legacy systems, like HP-UX systems and trying to move over to x86. So, it is helping fill a hardware gap that a lot of our platforms have needed in the past.
Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do.
System Architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
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.
Manager Engineering Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
Everything is in one place. We have one place to with OneView. It provides one console with one place to get to everything. The one interface makes it easier. We have one guy who does almost everything in it.
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.
It has improved our procurement and day zero provisioning. We are bringing in racks of Synergy which are not populated with the blades, then we are buying the blades and populating them, as our business needs. This has been pretty helpful to be able to sort of pre-package the data center with the Synergy platform, then deploy servers into it as we grow.
It's very scalable. We like the idea that we can put four chassis in one of our racks, and we can connect up to 25 chassis, so the scalability to us, and being able to sync all those into one management portal, is unheard of. You can't really sync that many blades and chassis together in any other platform.
IT Infrastructure Manager at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
The flexibility to link them together and configure them gives us the ability to scale out easily, to add more compute resources as needed... The way that they're scalable and flexible means we can add additional servers in quickly... We're not spending a lot of time doing procurement and building of physical servers.
Manager IT Infrastructure at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities.
Network Specialist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
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 most valuable feature is its composable infrastructure. Everything I need is in the box. Manageability is through OneView, so I can get all the information about the box itself at any time I want.
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.
Senior Server Engineer at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2019
It gives us ease of use. It's nice because we don't have to mess with networking once it's set up. Once it's done, we just put another blade in and go from there. We don't have to go back in, run more cables, deal with more data center stuff. We stick a blade in, use the server profile template, build out a server profile from that, and it just goes.
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...
It is a good product for hypervisors.
The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component.
The hyper-converged infrastructure where everything is stateless is valuable. Basically, you have your compute storage and networking management.
The initial setup is fine.
Orchestrating automations is great because you can connect to other tools with the REST API and automate components.
HPE Synergy is a stable solution.
Support is very helpful.
The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs.
It is a simple software to integrate with others.
HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years.
There is no problem with the scalability.
We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important.
We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it.
I like that it's suitable for virtualization. It's also stable and scalable. The newer version has a lot of memory, and you don't have to worry about updates.
The stability of the solution is very reliable.
Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications.
The solution is built very well. It's very robust and durable.
The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks.
Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful.
Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions.
For me, this is the best frame server technology available in the market. We can compare it to Cisco UCS.
It is robust and stable, and it is also easy to deploy and scale. Their support is the best.
The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows.
Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system.
The processing time has been about 50 times faster and allows us to do AI models.
The stability is very good. We haven't had any outages.
The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly with some app deployments.
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.
In terms of the productivity of our deployment team, the amount of time has been decreased a lot. In the past, to deploy one c7000 chassis with 15 or 16 blades, we literally used to spend two to three weeks. But with a Synergy, it's very quick. Within three days we can do the deployment.
The solution helps us to implement new business requirements quickly, by using the Composer for efficiency. It has also improved the productivity of our development team due to the efficiency of being able to deploy via Composer.
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 single pane of glass management is huge, because in all our previous systems, depending on what we were managing, we would go to a different management point. Being able to go to one spot to get everything is helpful. I find that server profile creation is a lot easier in OneView than it was previously. We are able to stay compliant with firmware and updates, because we are assigning server profiles and reapplying them when there are changes. This makes everything a lot simpler.
It is helping us sort of bridge a gap that we are having moving off of old legacy systems, like HP-UX systems and trying to move over to x86. So, it is helping fill a hardware gap that a lot of our platforms have needed in the past.
The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do.
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.
Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day.
Everything is in one place. We have one place to with OneView. It provides one console with one place to get to everything. The one interface makes it easier. We have one guy who does almost everything in it.
The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView.
Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me.
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.
It has improved our procurement and day zero provisioning. We are bringing in racks of Synergy which are not populated with the blades, then we are buying the blades and populating them, as our business needs. This has been pretty helpful to be able to sort of pre-package the data center with the Synergy platform, then deploy servers into it as we grow.
We have more control over the firmware and how we are managing our physical servers.
It's very scalable. We like the idea that we can put four chassis in one of our racks, and we can connect up to 25 chassis, so the scalability to us, and being able to sync all those into one management portal, is unheard of. You can't really sync that many blades and chassis together in any other platform.
The flexibility to link them together and configure them gives us the ability to scale out easily, to add more compute resources as needed... The way that they're scalable and flexible means we can add additional servers in quickly... We're not spending a lot of time doing procurement and building of physical servers.
It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes.
We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities.
It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place.
The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity.
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.
As we purchase and install more Synergy chassis, then we will be able to manage them together as one entity, as opposed to multiple separate cabinets.
It makes it simpler for me to manage my environment. It is one pane of glass, compared to multiple.
With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard.
The most valuable feature is its composable infrastructure. Everything I need is in the box. Manageability is through OneView, so I can get all the information about the box itself at any time I want.
The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view.
Composability... We show our partners the value of composability and how it can meet their needs.
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.
It gives us ease of use. It's nice because we don't have to mess with networking once it's set up. Once it's done, we just put another blade in and go from there. We don't have to go back in, run more cables, deal with more data center stuff. We stick a blade in, use the server profile template, build out a server profile from that, and it just goes.
The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView.