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."I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The scalability is very good."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"It's very scalable."
"The technical support is good."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
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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