HPE Integrity vs HPE Synergy comparison

HPE Integrity and HPE Synergy are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. HPE Integrity is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.8, while HPE Synergy is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. HPE Integrity holds a 3.8% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to HPE Synergy’s 21.3% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of HPE Integrity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of HPE Synergy users who would recommend it.

HPE Integrity

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90% willing to recommend

HPE Synergy

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between HPE Integrity 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

HPE Integrity

Ranking in Blade Servers

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Synergy

Ranking in Blade Servers

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Composable Infrastructure (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Integrity is 3.8%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.3%, down from 22.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Linda Belebesi

Unix System Engineer at Road Accident Fund

Highly stable, straightforward, and easy to use

In terms of improvement, the operating system development is slow, making it hard to keep up with modern tech and integrate with third-party products. Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365. This means if you are using HPE, you might face challenges connecting to the cloud and need to rely more on on-premises servers. Also, the support is lacking in some third-party products, limiting your options.

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Petr Student

Senior Technical Architect at Tietoevry

The composable infrastructure allows you to build and stack shared capacity

The hardware is fine but OneView needs additional event management and filtering options. Documentation could better describe the solution's configuration possibilities. Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage. The solution is a hardware that is defined by its software so management issues can occur on servers or within the software running the hardware. For example, an electric car depends on its software. If the software is bad, then you can expect issues and problems that might not allow you to start the car. A technician might have uploaded the wrong code into firmware or a software developer might have make code mistakes and these things cause issues. The solution can only be as reliable as the software used to run it.

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Pros

"The benefit provided by the solution for my organization stems from the fact that it provides maximum reliability and availability to users."

"The tool provides good performance and productivity."

"It is very fast and easy to use."

"The product's most valuable features are troubleshooting and monitoring."

"HPE Integrity is a reliable solution, but you'll need to refurbish the hardware because it's approaching the end of sale."

"We have what is called a chief data care center support. This is the highest level of support they have. We have been very happy with the support we have received."

"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."

"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."

"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."

"It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."

"It's a fully integrated solution with OneView."

"The initial setup is fine."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"HPE Integrity needs improvement in terms of pricing for scalability."

"The manageability must be improved."

"Unlike other platforms, it lacks easy integration with popular cloud services like Office 365."

"The monitoring is an area that needs some improvement."

"HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication."

"HPE Integrity is a pain. HPE hasn't put much work into developing the solution in the past few years because it will be discontinued soon."

"The virtualization of HPE Integrity could be simplified. We have discussed this issue with HPE and hopefully, they will have an update."

"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."

"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."

"When templates are created, there are some steps where you need to reboot the machines. Being in production, this is not a good idea. For example, if you reconfigure the network, you should not have to reboot the machine. You should just apply the new template and that's it."

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

"Technical support for this solution has a very good initial response; however, escalation takes time, and most of the time the first level of support cannot solve your case."

"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."

"The user interface could be more user-friendly. It's for admins, and you should have the knowledge to use it."

"I think we were promised a little more than we were given. It's true, they are working very hard to try to help remedy that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is not very expensive."

"The pricing is the best."

"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."

"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."

"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."

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

"We have already paid once. It is just the price for the permit and its use. It seems you don't have to keep paying for it, but I am not sure."

"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."

"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."

"It costs us around $60,000 a year."

"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."

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

"We pay about £500 for the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE Integrity?

The tool provides good performance and productivity.

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

The pricing is the best. It is suitable for us. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten.

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What needs improvement with HPE Integrity?

The manageability must be improved. Regular management is a little complex.

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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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Also Known As

HP Integrity Superdome , HP Integrity, SGI Altix

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Overview

HP Integrity solutions provide an unparalleled portfolio of resilient systems for mission-critical environments. When availability matters, the new HP Integrity NonStop X enables you to stay ahead of your competition by mitigating the risk of downtime and effortlessly meeting your business processing, OLTP, and database requirements all with an industry-standard x86 architecture.

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

Home Credit Bank

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

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