HPE Synergy Makes Good on All the Composable/Software Defined/Policy Based Infrastructure Hype!
November 01, 2023
HPE Synergy Makes Good on All the Composable/Software Defined/Policy Based Infrastructure Hype!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with HPE Synergy
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
- 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.
Do you think HPE Synergy delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with HPE Synergy's feature set?
Yes
Did HPE Synergy live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of HPE Synergy go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy HPE Synergy again?
Yes
Using HPE Synergy
600 - 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