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 most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"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 scalability is very good."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The solution is expensive."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern 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."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The product could be made more secure."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
"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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