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."In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"Great security and functionality."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"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 of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The solution is expensive."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"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."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It could always use new tools."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
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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