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."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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
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, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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