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 of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The pricing could be less."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"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."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"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."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
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 and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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