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 valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"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 Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"It's modular."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"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."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"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 tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"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."
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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