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 solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"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 scalability is very good."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"Great security and functionality."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"The scalability has been good."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The solution has high performance."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
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 and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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