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 architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"The technical support is good."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The pricing could be less."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
"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."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
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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