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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"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 most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"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 most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"It is very stable."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The scalability has been good."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The product could be made more secure."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
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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