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Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series vs HPE Synergy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series
Ranking in Blade Servers
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Synergy
Ranking in Blade Servers
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Composable Infrastructure (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series is 2.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 14.6%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
HPE Synergy14.6%
Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series2.1%
Other83.3%
Blade Servers
 

Featured Reviews

Cyrille Darmon - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer for E&V Group at NISKO TECH
A highly stable solution with technical support that is not only good but also always available to help the product's users
My company's IT activities are carried out with the help of the solution. My company's customers use the solution in their telecom department or for telecommunication purposes The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. The initial setup of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series should be…
MS
Works at Saudi Telecom Company
Manage servers efficiently with an integrated view while reducing downtime
My use case is to serve the complete IT environment of the telecom, including all cloud applications. I use HPE Synergy servers for my private cloud and for network management systems. 70% of my workload is running on HPE servers The integrated view, such as managing complete servers and…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series has two processors."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"Technical support is excellent. They are very helpful."
"For me, this is the best frame server technology available in the market. We can compare it to Cisco UCS. It is robust and stable, and it is also easy to deploy and scale. Their support is the best."
"It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."
"The composable infrastructure allows us to build our own server profiles, then build up the infrastructure that we need from compute modules."
"Give us the ability to seamlessly migrate from one operating environment to another within minutes, which is invaluable."
"Great flexibility including configuring the interconnects on the use of the chassis."
 

Cons

"It can have more automation. In addition, Fujitsu should have a broader portfolio, not specifically in terms of the service solutions, but more in terms of the big picture. A broader portfolio would be nice for providing different solutions for the customers."
"The initial setup of Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series was complex."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"​Because we're using 2012, we're having issues making templates."
"I would like it to connect to the HPE Cloud Connect compute platform for simplicity of our infrastructure."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"The only good thing is that they have some powerful machines that you can use, such as the latest generations of HPE Compute that you can use."
"The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back."
"The Synergy platform is HPE-specific and more for on-premises. You're kind of locked in with VMware and the HPE with the VMs. The Nutanix offering is a bit more flexible."
"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are special licenses that are connected to the usage. We installed Fujitsu Primergy BX400 Series for a high PC solution, and for this reason, some Microsoft licenses and other special licenses were embedded or bundled to the Fujitsu solution."
"No license is required to operate the product."
"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."
"We do a biannual renewal. I know how much that renewal is, but I don't know how much it breaks down to be just Synergy, since we have our VMware, all of our physical equipment, etc. all rolled up into one renewal, which is a little over $300,000 every two years. However, only a subset of that is the Synergy product."
"The hardware licensing cost is reasonable."
"There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."
"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."
"We do CAPEX."
"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."
"We pay for licensing on the fibre channel uplinks, on the Virtual Connect, which is an add-on."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise56
 

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Sample Customers

Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Tokyo Stock Exchange, RAF St. Mawgan, King Fahad Medical City, St. Bede’s Catholic High School, 
HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United
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