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HPE Synergy

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What is HPE Synergy?

HPE Synergy is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software designed to support a composable infrastructure, which treats IT resources as a service that can be "composed" and deployed out to applications in near real-time, eliminating the need to configure hardware.

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Synergy a great buy and worthwhile upgrade

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our Organization we use Synergy 12000 for HPC virtualization. It can handle multiple high performance work loads and the hardware is stable as well as easy to operate. Compared to the older HPE c7000 enclosure it is a more compact system and the processor is quite cheaper to replace. As Synergy is the latest blade system in HPE's lineup the virtualization is easier and the latest VMware and other virtualization like HPE VME are supported. HPE One view support has been a real game changer for node management including automated firmware update for each component, automated case generation for issue and many more.

Pros

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

Cons

  • Oneview configuration can be complex
  • No advanced analytical features available
  • Monitoring features need to be improved

Return on Investment

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

Usability

Other Software Used

HPE ProLiant DL, Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS)

HPE Synergy Makes Good on All the Composable/Software Defined/Policy Based Infrastructure Hype!

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Bob Bennett
Infrastructure Architect in Information Technology at Advisor360 (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HPE Synergy solves our business problems for scaling and sizing various virtualized environments across the board via its composable infrastructure features. The logical encapsulation of all resources provides a set of rich functionality for policy based management, allocation/reallocation and utilization of resources.

Pros

  • Nearly instant configuration of applications according to specific requirements within a single pool
  • Deployment, updating and monitoring via a single interface
  • Updates and redeployment with minimal service interruption
  • Support for virtual, bare metal and containerized workloads

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • Unified management
  • Policy based administration (composable infrastructure)
  • Firmware management

Return on Investment

  • Eased concerns for go-live of a huge new deployment as we knew we could respond to any scaling concern swiftly and thoroughly
  • Hardware has been rock solid since implementation
  • Limits to initially deployed logical enclosure configurations have been addressed rapidly by the introduction of new hardware with fast speeds/additional management ring connectivity options

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Series and Dell PowerEdge M

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, VMware Aria Operations, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Progress MOVEit, HPE OneView, Hitachi Ops Center Protector, Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS), Commvault HyperScale X, Redis™*, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Zerto, Atlassian Confluence, Jira Software, ServiceNow Now Platform