Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series vs HPE Synergy comparison

Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. Fujitsu is ranked #14, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4. Fujitsu holds a 0.7% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 21.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution.

Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series

Ranking in Blade Servers

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Synergy

Ranking in Blade Servers

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Composable Infrastructure (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series is 0.7%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.8%, down from 22.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Cyrille Darmon

Chief Technology Officer for E&V Group at NISKO TECH

A highly stable solution with technical support that is not only good but also always available to help the product's users

My company's IT activities are carried out with the help of the solution. My company's customers use the solution in their telecom department or for telecommunication purposes The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. The initial setup of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series should be…

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CarlosArdila

Project Manager, Information Technology at Telelago

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."

"Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series has two processors."

"The solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours."

"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."

"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."

"Everybody noticed very large improvement in data processing. A lot of activity which took hours now takes, let's say, tens of minutes."

"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 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."

"The Synergy environment provides us with one view. We're able to manage the entire stack, top to bottom, from that single view."

"It's more composable, you can use storage as well as compute blades. So maybe it's more versatile compared to the traditional blade systems."

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Cons

"It can have more automation. In addition, Fujitsu should have a broader portfolio, not specifically in terms of the service solutions, but more in terms of the big picture. A broader portfolio would be nice for providing different solutions for the customers."

"The initial setup of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series was complex."

"Instead of having Synergy vertical, make it horizontal. It is easier to stick in when it is vertical."

"Continue the path of integrating OneView into a single product. A lot of different people have different OneView experiences based on which product they have used it for."

"The profiles aren't so easy to work with."

"The initial setup was complex. From what I was told, there were issues initially with getting the SFPs on the floor for our data center and something with the image, but I think that was on our service provider' side. They couldn't get the image to deploy with the right drivers and stuff."

"I would like the ability to take the storage tray that is in a chassis and share it out to multiple chassis, not just the servers within the same chassis. This would be more efficient with resources."

"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."

"It has been in the external integrations to other platforms that we have, which aren't HPE, where some of our challenges have been. I would like to see some integrations with non-HPE platforms."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"No license is required to operate the product."

"There are special licenses that are connected to the usage. We installed Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series for a high PC solution, and for this reason, some Microsoft licenses and other special licenses were embedded or bundled to the Fujitsu solution."

"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."

"We are satisfied with its price."

"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs by 50 percent."

"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."

"There is a perpetual license given when you purchase HPE Synergy."

"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs because we have had to buy less services than we used to."

"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."

"We do CAPEX."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series?

The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series?

No license is required to operate the product. Licenses are meant for products like VMware.

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What needs improvement with Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series?

The initial setup of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series should be made easier.

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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...

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What do you like most about HPE Synergy?

It is a good product for hypervisors.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?

Synergy is more expensive than Cisco.

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Overview

Managing large computing and storage requirements with limited resources, budgets and space is a challenge. The Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY BX400 helps to solve it. It is a fully-featured blade system built from the ground up as a user-friendly and versatile IT infrastructure. Up to eight server and storage blades are all packed into a surprisingly small enclosure that is as easy to install and manage as it is to use.

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 application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

Sample Customers

Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Tokyo Stock Exchange, RAF St. Mawgan, King Fahad Medical City, St. Bede’s Catholic High School,

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

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