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 very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The pricing could be less."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"It could always use new tools."
"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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