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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"It is not expensive."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"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."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
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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