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 GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"Great security and functionality."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The product is easy to use."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"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."
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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