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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The product is easy to use."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"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 most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"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."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 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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