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 feature is the service profile."
"Great security and functionality."
"The scalability is very good."
"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 hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"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."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
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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