HPE NonStop vs HPE Synergy comparison

HPE NonStop and HPE Synergy are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. HPE NonStop is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0, while HPE Synergy is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4. HPE NonStop holds a 3.6% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to HPE Synergy’s 21.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of HPE NonStop users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of HPE Synergy users who would recommend it.

HPE NonStop

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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 NonStop 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 NonStop

Ranking in Blade Servers

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

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 HPE NonStop is 3.6%, up from 2.3% 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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Roni Wijaya

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.

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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 stability of HPE NonStop is good."

"We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop."

"Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable."

"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."

"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."

"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."

"The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component."

"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."

"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."

"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."

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

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Cons

"HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management."

"It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop."

"It would be helpful if they brought the price down."

"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."

"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 deployment time of a system through OneView is pretty slow, but apparently that's being addressed in an upcoming update."

"The performance could be better. The converged network cards initially didn't work. However, later on in the newer version, they came up with 50 GB network cards to replace the 20 GB ones, and it's perfectly fine now. At times, it could also be more stable."

"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."

"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."

"Its management needs some work. It is not the best in terms of management. It has decent management. Its user interface can also be better."

"There is certainly a feature or two missing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"HPE NonStop is definitely on the higher end."

"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."

"When we made the purchase of the hardware, we added Professional Services to it."

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

"We outright purchased Synergy."

"For temporal use, when you throw on the fact that you're essentially doubling your capacity, right there you could claim a 50 percent TCO reduction."

"We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."

"We are satisfied with its price."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

15%

Retailer

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

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 NonStop?

Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable.

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

It is an expensive solution. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the pricing an eight. The licensing is based on a yearly basis, but we buy for a mi...

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What needs improvement with HPE NonStop?

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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 NonStop, HPE Integrity NonStop

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Overview

When availability matters, the new HPE 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 brings you an unparalleled portfolio of HPE Integrity NonStop systems the NonStop i family and the NonStop X family. These systems deliver the highest level of availability for the most-demanding, high-value workloads and customer-facing applications.

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

Bankart, Capital Securities Corporation

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

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