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 of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"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."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The solution has good performance."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The pricing could be less."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"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."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
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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