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 solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"It's modular."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The solution is very easy to use."
"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."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The scalability has been good."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"I like the stability."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"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."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
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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