We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE BladeSystem 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."It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"Great security and functionality."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"It's very scalable."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6. 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 BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Superdome X and Super Micro SuperBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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