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 product is easy to use."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"It is very stable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"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."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The product could be made more secure."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"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."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"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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