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HPE Synergy vs Super Micro SuperBlade comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE Synergy
Ranking in Blade Servers
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
Super Micro SuperBlade
Ranking in Blade Servers
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.3%, down from 22.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Super Micro SuperBlade is 7.0%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Petr Student - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Gergely Lakos - PeerSpot reviewer
With many servers in one, these blade servers are easier to manage
The service could be improved by faster servers, more widely available VMs, and more storage in one place. Then, in the event of a blade failure, we could start our VMs on another blade in a couple of minutes. This is why we wanted to buy storage. But now, we want to buy a twin server with 24 VMware discs to create test storage. The next product release should allow more servers to be controlled simultaneously.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is first in class for composable infrastructure. It has the scalability that meets our future needs and the automation that builds into something that we are really looking forward to using.​"
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"The benefit is that it's going to be maintained, contrary to what we had last year, when the maintenance went off for the last generation of the servers that we had there."
"The most valuable features are the converged network adapters."
"It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
 

Cons

"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."
"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. It's for admins, and you should have the knowledge to use it."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"The initial setup was complex. We had a couple of bright engineers working on it, and they figured out a lot of things that they don't know... The problem was that they couldn't find documentation easily, to walk them through setup when they just didn't know the platform."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
"I would really like a way to validate the firmware in my specific environment before trying to deploy it. Those were the issues we had early on with firmware upgrades, particularly around certificates. All in all, having some level of confidence aside from it just having been tested generically would help. Something more specific to my environment would be very helpful."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"The solution does not scale well."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has reduced our IT infrastructure costs by 50 percent."
"We pay about £500 for the solution."
"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."
"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."
"There is a perpetual license given when you purchase HPE Synergy."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"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 bought everything outright to start with. We don't do much consumption-based stuff."
"The product is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Sample Customers

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