HPE Synergy Makes Good on All the Composable/Software Defined/Policy Based Infrastructure Hype!
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for virtualization and multi-environment implementations. Bare metal deployments have a few more limitations.
Bob Bennett
Infrastructure Architect in Information Technology at Advisor360 (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
5 years of experience