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."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"I like the stability."
"The solution has high performance."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The pricing could be less."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"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."
"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 integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
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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