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."It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The solution is stable."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot 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 UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"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."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
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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