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 scalability is very good."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The technical support is good."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The pricing could be less."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"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 initial setup process is complex."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"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 problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"It could always use new tools."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
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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