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."Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"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 feature is the service profile."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The solution is expensive."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
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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