HPE Synergy

What do you like best?

The integration of Oneview through the built-in composer

The frames aggregation by using interconnect link modules

Ease of management

Almost seamless firmware update process

What do you dislike?

The hardware sometimes is healthy but the profile has a problem and it is hard to fix without downtime

There is no maintenance mode in Oneview to stop notifications during regular maintenance

Support sometimes take time to escalate the case from level 1 to level 2 support

SUT integration can be ameliorated

Update: After Version Oneview 5.3 there is now maintenance mode under Server Hardware

Recommendations to others considering the product:

- Recommendation to others considering HPE synergy is to have segregated san virtual connects if the bandwidth is high and the budget allows

- If Administrators don't have experience with HPE Oneview, they will have a learning curve to understand how things shall be managed and how it is structured (but it is not complicated)

- Use a single LAG to combine all the network uplinks to have higher bandwidth

- Always update all the components including one view, Virtual connects, frame links, compute modules ... Since Oneview is ameliorating fast

- Watch out for the firmware update compatibility matrix from the HPE website at first it is a bit confusing

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Easier management especially when You have a large number of compute modules.

Easier patching process using the composer SPP

Higher bandwidth and compatibility with Cisco ACI for the HPE Virtual Connect 40G