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."It's modular."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The scalability has been good."
"The technical support is good."
"It is not expensive."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The solution is expensive."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"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."
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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