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 scalability is very good."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"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."
"Great security and functionality."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The technical support is good."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The solution has good performance."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The solution is expensive."
"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."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"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."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"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."
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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