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 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 is the service profile."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The scalability is very good."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
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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