#HPE 's #Synergy is, it thinks, the next great advance in servers and is far more capable than hyper-converged infrastructure systems, being able to provision bare metal as well as servers for virtual workloads as well as containerised ones. Getting a grip on this beast is tricky. Is it a form of dynamically reconfigurable hyperconverged infrastructure ( #HCI ) with separately scalable compute, storage and networking? Yes, in a way it is, but HPE would position it apart from HCI, as we shall see later. The basic Synergy element is a 10U rackmount chassis, somewhat similar to its C-Class chassis but taking specific servers, not standard ones. This chassis can take a mix of server and storage frames which slot in from the front and has a set of network nodes at the back, with a single master node. These nodes obviate the need for a separate top of rack networking switch. The chassis also has a front-mount Composer, a dedicated server with storage and networking. This runs a version of #Linux, auto-discovers Synergy compute, storage and networking (fabric) elements, and provides the #OneView command facility for managing Synergy.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/03/roll_over_beethoven_hpe_synergy/
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