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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The product is easy to use."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The technical support is good."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"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."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"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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