We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge M 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."The tool's most valuable features are high availability and scalability. Its integration is easy."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"The solution integrated well."
"I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."
"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."
"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."
"The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs."
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any outages."
"The processing time has been about 50 times faster and allows us to do AI models."
"Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"The manageability is its most valuable feature. It is a fully managed platform, which is very simple to manage."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs."
"Technical support is not good."
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"The set up is complex"
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"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."
"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."
"I'd get the firmware to be a little more secure and a little more streamlined."
"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
"One of the things that I would like to see, and could be in their road map, is getting virtual connect to 100 Gig throughput."
"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."
"We haven't seen any ROI, and it hasn't reduced our cost of operations."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 15 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE BladeSystem and HPE NonStop, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE Synergy report.
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