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 solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"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 that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The product is easy to use."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"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 Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The scalability has been good."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The pricing could be less."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"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."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"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 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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