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."Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"It's modular."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"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 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."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The scalability has been good."
"It is very stable."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The product could be made more secure."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"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."
"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."
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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