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 ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"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."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"It is very stable."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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