HPE NonStop vs HPE Synergy comparison

HPE NonStop and HPE Synergy are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. HPE NonStop is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0, while HPE Synergy is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. HPE NonStop holds a 3.9% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to HPE Synergy’s 21.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of HPE NonStop users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of HPE Synergy users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

HPE NonStop and HPE Synergy are competing products in enterprise IT solutions. HPE Synergy has a competitive edge with its adaptable architecture and features.

Features: HPE NonStop offers high availability, fault-tolerant architecture, and linear expandability, essential for mission-critical applications in banking or telecoms. It also provides scalability, upgradable without downtime, and strong security features. HPE Synergy, on the other hand, enables composable infrastructure, centralized management via HPE OneView, and easy hardware reutilization, making it ideal for rapidly changing environments and scalability.

Room for Improvement: HPE NonStop could benefit from simplified deployment processes and enhanced learning resources for users. Furthermore, making the technology more flexible and adaptable to small-scale operations might widen its market. When it comes to scalability, the solution could provide more granular options for smaller changes. HPE Synergy could improve its integration capabilities between different systems and software to simplify management. Also, increasing the compatibility with diverse IT landscapes and enhancing customer training for better resource utilization would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Synergy simplifies deployment with its composable architecture, easing integration and system management. It offers efficient technical support for setup and scaling. In contrast, HPE NonStop’s deployment can be complex, but it is backed by responsive customer support that assists in navigating its complexities.

Pricing and ROI: The initial cost of HPE NonStop is high, but justified by its uninterrupted service and reliability, ensuring consistent ROI for crucial operations. HPE Synergy presents a cost-effective entry with a swift ROI, leveraging its modular design for incremental upgrades. Its competitive pricing and adaptability offer a compelling option for businesses prioritizing flexibility and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE NonStop

Ranking in Blade Servers

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Synergy

Ranking in Blade Servers

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Composable Infrastructure (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of HPE NonStop is 3.9%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.8%, up from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Roni Wijaya

Vice President of It Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

With a perfect record for uptime, the solution ensures a return on investment

Since it is a legacy tool, there is a need to change it for flexibility. I think now it has improved because the security is very good. It is very secure for the performance of the machine critical application service, and it is very good. I don't know how to speak more on improvement needed because it's a good enough tool. However, depending on the application, it's limited. Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop. It is not flexible because I know that because of the compatibility of Java with HPE NonStop. When we are using Java, the performance is not good.

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CarlosArdila

Project Manager, Information Technology at Telelago

Helps grow horizontally or vertically within one box or chassis

The initial setup is very easy. We deployed this in two days, including installation, system setup, firmware upgrades, configuration, and network connection. By the next day, we were already deploying virtual machines. We initially began with the Blade system. As the migration to SAP HANA approached, it seemed prudent to upgrade our hardware. Consequently, we facilitated their transition from the Blade system to Synergy. Subsequently, we collaborated closely with the SAP consultancy company to oversee the migration process, ensuring seamless integration of all workloads and sub-environments. We have four people working on the deployment, including a project manager, two specialists, and one tech support.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable."

"The stability of HPE NonStop is good."

"We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop."

"It is helping us sort of bridge a gap that we are having moving off of old legacy systems, like HP-UX systems and trying to move over to x86. So, it is helping fill a hardware gap that a lot of our platforms have needed in the past."

"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."

"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."

"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."

"The price is reasonable, and the stability and scalability are okay. We bought the solution because it suits our needs."

"Support is very helpful."

"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."

"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."

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Cons

"It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop."

"It would be helpful if they brought the price down."

"HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management."

"The technical support was about the only negative experience that I had. It was a mixed bag when we were first standing it up. We had some requirements from our information security department, and technical support wasn't able to give me immediate answers. They had to engage engineering, which they did, then they got me the answers. However, it took a week of back and forth conversations and phone calls to get it all worked out."

"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 update is problematic. When you want to update the firmware, or when you want to update software on Composer, it takes a lot of time. A lot."

"The expansion was complex, because adding a second frame onto the original frame caused an outage."

"I would like the ability to have my storage components accessed from any other frame across the backplane. If we have a storage module and we run out of space in that frame, it'd be nice to be able to share it across the frames. You can do it with hyperconverged. Why can't you do it with Synergy?"

"The setup was a bit complex."

"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."

"The performance could be better. The converged network cards initially didn't work. However, later on in the newer version, they came up with 50 GB network cards to replace the 20 GB ones, and it's perfectly fine now. At times, it could also be more stable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is too high. If they lowered the price substantially it would open up more opportunities. It's considered a replacement for the old 9000 boxes of HP. If it had a lower price, we would be able to compete in the financial, and other sectors and other solutions such as Terraform. Having a high price makes other solutions more attractive."

"HPE NonStop is definitely on the higher end."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is very cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."

"We are satisfied with its price."

"For me, the scalability is how much money that I need to spend on switches for how many frames, which ultimately means servers. To get the best bandwidth before the most recent product announcement, I have buy new switches every three frames. The competition is shipping a product right now where I only need switches every ten frames."

"The licensing is more around the software for RGS, because we are deploying bare metal installs. It is mainly the operating system and any lights-out management. So, licensing is minimum. We are licensing it annually."

"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."

"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."

"In our whole environment, the cost is in the millions. On this particular chassis, the annual cost is 12 blades times approximately $40,000."

"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."

"For temporal use, when you throw on the fact that you're essentially doubling your capacity, right there you could claim a 50 percent TCO reduction."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

24%

Retailer

University

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE NonStop?

Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE NonStop?

It is an expensive solution. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the pricing an eight. The licensing is based on a yearly basis, but we buy for a mi...

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What needs improvement with HPE NonStop?

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How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?

For me, choosing between HPE’s Bladesystem and Synergy came down to which solution was more powerful, reliable, and stable. It turns out Bladesystem was the winner. Bladesystem is excellent because...

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What do you like most about HPE Synergy?

It is a good product for hypervisors.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?

Pricing in the blade server market is very competitive, with HPE offering a competitive price. Competitor products include Dell's MX series and Cisco's UCS X series.

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Also Known As

HP NonStop, HPE Integrity NonStop

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Overview

When availability matters, the new HPE Integrity NonStop X enables you to stay ahead of your competition by mitigating the risk of downtime and effortlessly meeting your business processing, OLTP, and database requirements all with an industry-standard x86 architecture. HPE brings you an unparalleled portfolio of HPE Integrity NonStop systems the NonStop i family and the NonStop X family. These systems deliver the highest level of availability for the most-demanding, high-value workloads and customer-facing applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

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HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

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