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 product is easy to use."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"It's modular."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The solution is stable."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"It's very scalable."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"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."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"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."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
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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