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HPE NonStop vs HPE Synergy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

HPE NonStop
Ranking in Blade Servers
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Synergy
Ranking in Blade Servers
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE NonStop is 4.8%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 9.7%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy9.7%
HPE NonStop4.8%
Other85.5%
Blade Servers
 

Featured Reviews

Roni Wijaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of It Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
With a perfect record for uptime, the solution ensures a return on investment
Since it is a legacy tool, there is a need to change it for flexibility. I think now it has improved because the security is very good. It is very secure for the performance of the machine critical application service, and it is very good. I don't know how to speak more on improvement needed because it's a good enough tool. However, depending on the application, it's limited. Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop. It is not flexible because I know that because of the compatibility of Java with HPE NonStop. When we are using Java, the performance is not good.
MR
Presales engineer and consultant at Hybrid Tech
Redundant components and single console management improve efficiency while high costs warrant attention
Regarding HPE Synergy, the most valuable feature is that the whole solution and the whole system operate in passive mode, and there are very few chances of downtime as all the components in HPE Synergy are redundant, including VC Flex modules and interconnect modules, as well as power supply and fan modules. Other networking and storage connectivity modules are also redundant, and we can mount the entire Synergy frame in a single rack. If we fully populate a Synergy frame with 12 servers, 12 physical machines could be mounted in one Synergy frame, mostly with redundant power supplies and networking ports along with SAN connectivity on a single console.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The HPE NonStop solution is rated with the highest level of availability in the industry."
"Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable."
"Implement it. You will never regret it."
"It helps us to keep the business running 24/7."
"If you are contemplating a fault-tolerant, high uptime transaction processing machine with above normal transactions volumes - to act as a transaction server with infrequent changes to code - and you simply must have bulletproof performance - this might be the ticket."
"This is the standard for reliability and fault-resilience."
"The stability of HPE NonStop is good."
"Technical support is A++. If there is a problem, HPE will fix it."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"If you can get it set up right and get a little bit of expertise in it, it's a wonderful platform."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"We needed to move forward, so we could have a platform that we could rely on for the next ten or so years, something that we could go and deploy, taking advantage of all the functions that it has."
"It's a fully integrated solution with OneView."
"The solution is built very well. It's very robust and durable."
"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."
"This is a robust, stable, scalable solution."
 

Cons

"The initial setup is complex. You need the help of a consultant for it to go smoothly."
"HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management."
"I would never advise someone to buy or to implement the new NonStop because it's hard to find skilled people."
"It would be helpful if they brought the price down."
"Currently the NonStop platform doesn’t support virtualization of servers or CPU’s. Only storage."
"The hardware fails often, and I feel that HP really needs to pay more attention to this issue."
"It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop."
"NonStop (formerly known as Tandem) in the Guardian OS could use another, friendlier macro language."
"In our case, it would not be an improvement over the way our company functions; we have unique scaling demands, and our storage demands scale very differently than our compute demand scales, so doing HCI anything doesn't really fit well with how we operate."
"The lowest echelon of HPE technical support is sadly uninformed, unknowledgeable, and dependent on wrote scripts."
"Its management needs some work. It is not the best in terms of management."
"When I get to a human being, technical support is great; up until then, it's a big challenge."
"I would like more storage with this solution, because we still need 3PAR or other storage outside the box for the amount of data that we have."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades."
"The power consumption is very high, and there should be a more efficient way of reducing the power requirements while maintaining high performance."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE NonStop is definitely on the higher end."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is very cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."
"The price of the solution is too high. If they lowered the price substantially it would open up more opportunities. It's considered a replacement for the old 9000 boxes of HP. If it had a lower price, we would be able to compete in the financial, and other sectors and other solutions such as Terraform. Having a high price makes other solutions more attractive."
"The licensing is more around the software for RGS, because we are deploying bare metal installs. It is mainly the operating system and any lights-out management. So, licensing is minimum. We are licensing it annually."
"There is a perpetual license given when you purchase HPE Synergy."
"The cost is high and that is a drawback for some customers."
"For me, the scalability is how much money that I need to spend on switches for how many frames, which ultimately means servers. To get the best bandwidth before the most recent product announcement, I have buy new switches every three frames. The competition is shipping a product right now where I only need switches every ten frames."
"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."
"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."
"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
5%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
 

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What needs improvement with HPE Synergy?
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Also Known As

HP NonStop, HPE Integrity NonStop
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Sample Customers

Bankart, Capital Securities Corporation
HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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