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HPE Superdome X vs HPE Synergy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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 Superdome X
Ranking in Blade Servers
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
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 June 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Superdome X is 6.6%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 9.2%, down from 21.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Synergy9.2%
HPE Superdome X6.6%
Other84.2%
Blade Servers
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2056329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration
In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful. One other problem is energy consumption. We are forced to use both chassis even when we only need, for example, all four processors. It's not always used at full capacity every day. When underutilized, we still need to have both chassis powered, which creates an energy consumption issue. While the machine can be configured to reduce consumption, the idea of having different possible configurations with varying chassis usage, similar to the Flex version, could be interesting for this model, too. This model leverages specific features of the Intel MAP board, so switching like in the Flex might be difficult due to the motherboard switching involved.
MS
Works at Saudi Telecom Company
Manage servers efficiently with an integrated view while reducing downtime
My use case is to serve the complete IT environment of the telecom, including all cloud applications. I use HPE Synergy servers for my private cloud and for network management systems. 70% of my workload is running on HPE servers The integrated view, such as managing complete servers and…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."
"It's an amazing product, an amazing technology, that has the best of that world: performance and uptime, and standardization."
"HPE Superdome X is a very resilient infrastructure, and stable."
"This product is very reliable."
"CPU and memory, it's just pretty good and helps us to support the students and the teachers of the school."
"We like the flexibility with the platform and our ability to stretch it across a lot of different areas of the company and product lines."
"In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it."
"One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it, but because of the structure and the engineering behind it, you can actually have your blades partitioned and they're actually physically divided."
"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly, I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."
"HPE is really the leading platform."
"Everything is in one place. We have one place to with OneView. It provides one console with one place to get to everything. The one interface makes it easier. We have one guy who does almost everything in it."
"Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are quick support reliability, of course."
"The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs."
"The centralized management of HPE Synergy is beneficial because it is easy to manage and administer."
"The product enables the centralization of all administrative tasks."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
 

Cons

"What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver.""
"The price of this product should be cheaper."
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
"In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful."
"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud."
"I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."
"The technical support sucks, would be understating it. Because the first line and the second line support tend to give out stupid suggestions that are completely useless, and they aren't listening to anything."
"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up."
"I think the main issue with Synergy is a topology that HPE defines to connecting and creating a cluster."
"Gen 11 is being released. That's going to have a lot of advantages over Gen 10 and previous generations in terms of the cooling modules in the servers to keep them cooler and run with more efficiency and better performance. There are more management features with iLO 6 and the latest OneView management."
"I would really like a way to validate the firmware in my specific environment before trying to deploy it."
"The post-sales activity needs improvement."
"I would be more comfortable if Ansible actually rolled back the data used for automating platforms. If it could be communicated to the upstream Ansible, I wouldn't need to go back and forth and validate the libraries as we upgrade the Ansible version."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"We've had quite a few issues with stability on this system, with the Gen10 blades - with memory specifically. It's been problematic."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is not very cheap. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very inexpensive, and ten being very expensive."
"There is a very expensive one-time cost with no licensing fees."
"The platform that we run Synergy on is all virtualized. Our primary cost is likely VMware."
"We outright purchased Synergy."
"We are satisfied with its price."
"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."
"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."
"It costs us around $60,000 a year."
"We pay about £500 for the solution."
"We bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
15%
Government
10%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?
As far as the prices are concerned, rack mount solutions are less expensive than HPE Synergy prices; however, HPE Synergy prices are higher but justify themselves as the solution accommodates all t...
What needs improvement with HPE Synergy?
In my opinion, for future improvements in HPE Synergy, there should be better management of power consumption complexity as well as an increase in the number of servers that can fit in a single Syn...
 

Also Known As

HP Integrity Superdome, HP Superdome X
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Sample Customers

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HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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