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HPE Synergy

Overview

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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Product Demos

VMware Cloud Foundation Composable Infrastructure with HPE Synergy - De-compose Infrastructure

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All about HPE Synergy Part 2: ImageStreamer integration (with re-image)

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All about HPE Synergy Part 6: Composer to Composer2 migration

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All about HPE Synergy Part 5: Ansible integration

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All about HPE Synergy Part 4: Scale-Out of Frames

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Real Tech with WEI featuring HPE Synergy

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Product Details

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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
  • 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
Best suited for virtualization and multi-environment implementations. Bare metal deployments have a few more limitations.
  • 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.
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
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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
5
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
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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