HPE Synergy Makes Good on All the Composable/Software Defined/Policy Based Infrastructure Hype!
Rating: 10 out of 10
November 01, 2023
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Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
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.
- 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
- Unified management
- Policy based administration (composable infrastructure)
- Firmware management
- 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
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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All business units and groups utilize HPE Synergy based hardware environments including:
- All internal / back office functions
- Software Development / Testing / QA / Release
- Engineering SysOps/DBOps/Facilities
- Customer Success and Operations
- Legal and Compliance functions
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These people support administration of Synergy configuration for:
- Expansion of virtualization environments
- Addition / removal of networks and VLANs
- Addition of hardware to enclosures
- Modification of uplinks
- Use of OneView to perform orchestrated updates of all baseboard management and device firmware (this is a beautiful feature)
- Create and Edit Templates for Server Profiles
- Production Clusters
- Development / QA Clusters
- Performance Testing
- Workload Shift and Balancing
- Customer facing SaaS solutions
- It was very useful for an internal datacenter move