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 solution is stable."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The product is easy to use."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"It is very stable."
"It is not expensive."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"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 solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"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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