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 is the service profile."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"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."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"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 interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"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."
"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."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
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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