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 most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The scalability has been good."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"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 monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
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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