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 initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"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 is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution has high performance."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"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."
"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 pricing could be less."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
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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