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."The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."
"The solution integrated well."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website."
"The solution is made with high-quality hardware."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerEdge M is iDRAC."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"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 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'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 solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours."
"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."
"The set up is complex"
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs."
"There is room for improvement in scalability."
"Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it."
"It requires time to transition to the new generation."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
"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."
"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."
"You can always improve some things."
"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."
"The speed in OneView and how it updates the entire configuration needs improvement. If they can do that, and it could be a little more clear on what impact different actions will have for certain things, that would be good."
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 Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.
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