We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge M and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Blade Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is made with high-quality hardware."
"The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"The solution integrated well."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."
"Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me."
"There is no problem with the scalability."
"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."
"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 makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view."
"Shorter delivery times. Where we now have a delivery time of about six weeks, we hope to go back to days."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it."
"Technical support is not good."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"There is room for improvement in scalability."
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"The initial setup was complex. It was slow and just didn't work. Even HPE couldn't make it work for 45 days."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"Synergy could probably do some code enhancements to simplify the deployment a bit more."
"Over the two years of using HPE Synergy, we have found some hardware failures that are frequent in the SOP models, CNA cards, and converged network adapters. These failures are frequently happening for a lot of the customers."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 15 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex to set up". 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". Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE BladeSystem and Fujitsu Primergy BX900 Series, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, HPE Apollo and HPE Superdome X. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.
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