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 ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"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."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"It's very scalable."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"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."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"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."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
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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