We performed a comparison between HPE Blade system and HPE Synergy based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, HPE Synergy is a better choice. Our reviewers find that Synergy offers better support, stability and scalability, and it is worth the complex setup.
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"It is not expensive."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The technical support is good."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"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."
"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."
"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."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"This is above and beyond anything else any of the competitors have on the market. If you're researching this, you're going down the right path."
"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."
"The most valuable features are the converged network adapters."
"The solution has decreased the deployment time for a new blade, saving us three hours."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."
"One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles."
"The initial setup was complex. It was slow and just didn't work. Even HPE couldn't make it work for 45 days."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"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."
"It has affected the productivity of our development team in a bad way. When we first stood the hardware up 18 months ago, the image streaming capacity and capability were not very good at all. We had hoped that it would allow us to be more composable and be able to switch over from one version of an operating system to another version of an operating system. However, it wasn't ready for prime time yet. Therefore, we had to go back to a deployment of bare metal install. We are still waiting and trying to figure out how we can do the composable infrastructure."
"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."
HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple 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". HPE BladeSystem is most compared with Cisco UCS B-Series, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Superdome X and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our HPE BladeSystem vs. HPE Synergy report.
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