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 networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable."
"The tool's most valuable features are high availability and scalability. Its integration is easy."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"It helps us to manage multiple chassis from a single website."
"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."
"The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"We're able to provision different applications, different demonstrations, add cloud-like speeds on-prem, which is unheard of in the industry."
"In the data center, you see customers with a lot of blade enclosures and a lot of servers, and this solution works fine."
"The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"Everybody noticed very large improvement in data processing. A lot of activity which took hours now takes, let's say, tens of minutes."
"The hyper-converged infrastructure where everything is stateless is valuable. Basically, you have your compute storage and networking management."
"The stability of the solution is very reliable."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"Technical support is not good."
"The set up is complex"
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"Dell PowerEdge M needs to run AMD CPUs on it."
"We have had some issues with the vendor's support that we have received. When you open up a support case with Dell they send a partner to assist you and in our experience, they are lacking knowledge about the solution. There are times when you need professional support from the vendor that knows the solution well."
"It requires time to transition to the new generation."
"Over the two years of using HPE Synergy, we have found some hardware failures that are frequent in the SOP models, CNA cards, and converged network adapters. These failures are frequently happening for a lot of the customers."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"They have not improved their product since it was purchased."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"They were not so deep into integration with VMware."
"One of the issues that we that we have been having is with the firmware baselining. So, we need to just making sure that we get that working. However, we are in the early stages. It may well be that we just tweak a few things."
"We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate."
"HPE Synergy could improve its remote support."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 15 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 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 Fujitsu Primergy BX900 Series, 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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