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 features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"I like the stability."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"It is not expensive."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
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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