We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Blade Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."
"We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities."
"In terms of managing our IT landscape, it helps by reducing complexity... We've taken one of our virtualization guys and turned him into a Synergy guy, and he's been able to understand the networking, he's been able to understand the OneView, he's been able to understand the Synergy. He manages all of those rather than our having to have multiple teams associated with it."
"It is really easy to use, because it's GUI-based. It is not command line based, like mainframes."
"Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"As we purchase and install more Synergy chassis, then we will be able to manage them together as one entity, as opposed to multiple separate cabinets."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Continue the path of integrating OneView into a single product. A lot of different people have different OneView experiences based on which product they have used it for."
"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."
"This solution could be improved by increasing the speed on the conversion adapters. It should be 100 gigs."
"Changes to the solution are quite complex."
"The only issue that we had was our rack was too small. The product is heavy, so it took a lot to get it in there."
"We haven't seen any ROI, and it hasn't reduced our cost of operations."
"One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles."
"Sometimes there are firmware or software difficulties when connecting between networks or with storage."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "Robust hardware and efficient management of hardware, creating group policies, such as scrub policies and maintenance policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE Synergy report.
See our list of best Blade Servers vendors.
We monitor all Blade Servers reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
