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 initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The scalability has been good."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"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 most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The pricing could be less."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"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."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
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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