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 scalability is very good."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"It's modular."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The solution has high performance."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"I like the stability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"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."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"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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