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 hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"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 features of the solution are stability and security."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"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 connectivity speed could be improved."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
"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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