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 stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The product is easy to use."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"It's very scalable."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"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."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
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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