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."Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"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."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The solution has high performance."
"It is very stable."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The pricing could be less."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 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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