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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."
"Implement it. You will never regret it."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop."
"It helps us to keep the business running 24/7."
"This is the standard for reliability and fault-resilience."
"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."
"Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly, I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"This is above and beyond anything else any of the competitors have on the market."
"HPE has proven track records worldwide delivering superb support on hard- and software."
"We have been able to give the deployment team what they request more quickly. We are able to quickly deploy what is being asked of us. If the development team needs a platform of 20 servers to run a particular platform, we can give that to them within a day or two."
"It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."
"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."
"It's a fully integrated solution with OneView."
 

Cons

"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."
"The initial setup is complex. You need the help of a consultant for it to go smoothly."
"Currently the NonStop platform doesn’t support virtualization of servers or CPU’s. Only storage."
"It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop."
"It would be helpful if they brought the price down."
"The NonStop system is well priced, but the software that runs on it is quite pricey."
"The NonStop Support Center is very good, with an occasional bump in the road."
"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."
"They were not so deep into integration with VMware."
"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."
"I would be more comfortable if Ansible actually rolled back the data used for automating platforms."
"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 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 update is problematic. When you want to update the firmware, or when you want to update software on Composer, it takes a lot of time. A lot."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"HPE NonStop is definitely on the higher end."
"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."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is very cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."
"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."
"The solution can be expensive because it requires both hardware and software purchases."
"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs by 50 percent."
"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 pay about £500 for the solution."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
"In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
6%
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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