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."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The scalability is very good."
"I like that it's very manageable very easy to use and configure. I am not an expert, but the graphic user interface is quite simple very easy to use. It's a complete solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"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 solution is very easy to use."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The pricing could be less."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
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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