Fungible DPU Platform vs. HPE Synergy

Innovative technology, small company without the burdens of bolt-on integrations from acquisitions. Ability to scale performance and capacity independently is a true differentiator. Other companies have tried but turns into very costly endeavor to achieve.

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Best suited for virtualization and multi-environment implementations. Bare metal deployments have a few more limitations.

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• Scale
• performance
• disaggregation

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• Handles high performance workloads efficiently
• Has automated failover for downtime reduction
• Easier to replace spare parts
• Cable management is easier compared to previous generation

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• feature set
• supported systems

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• Firmware repository size limitations could be larger (was increased recently but still is only room for a few SPPs)
• Profile template updates flag all machines that haven't had their profile updated from the template, causing the dashboard to go red with warnings and can cause unnecessary concern
• OneView, while powerful isn't as user friendly as it could be

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The hardware has fulfilled all of the promises that it made when we first acquired it. The only thing that would preclude this would be if the organization decided to holistically switch hardware vendors for reasons other than performance and feature sets.

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The GUI of Synergy is very user friendly and simple. Compared to previous generation products it has many great built in features. HPE Synergy shines in the management features of the OneView software making it a very good update from last gen. The ease of cabling and hardware replacement only add more to this.

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Fungible matches density, but gives ability to expand the performance characteristics with the DPU technology

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While all similar offerings can achieve basically the same thing, HPE Synergy stands out against Cisco and Dell offerings with respect to manageability, ease of use and flexibility - HPE Synergy offers configurations groups of chassis to create logical enclosures that can be managed as a single entity and also blades in any slot can be plumbed and allocated as necessary to multiple uplinks. This is one level more flexible than the others which limits configurations of blades in a single chassis to similar uplink settings. Also, the HPE Synergy chassis itself supports 12 blades vs 10 in competitive offerings.

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• too soon to tell.

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• Downtime has been minimal resulting in less service imapct
• Freed up a lot of valuable rack space
• Forecasted ROI target is much shorter

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