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 most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"I like that it's very manageable very easy to use and configure. I am not an expert, but the graphic user interface is quite simple very easy to use. It's a complete solution."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"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 virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"It is very stable."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution is expensive."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"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."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
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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