We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Superdome X based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it."
"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."
"This product is very reliable."
"I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."
"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."
"Superdome X is a system that can compete in terms of performance and uptime, but it's now standard. That is the great value. There are competitors like IBM, for example, but IBM has a propietary operating system. With Superdome X, you have a system that can run Windows, Red Hat, or VMware, but in a mission critical server."
"We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"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."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."
"I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."
"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud."
"What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver.""
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
"In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Superdome X is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 11 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Superdome X is rated 9.0. 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 Superdome X writes "Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration ". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and PowerEdge C, whereas HPE Superdome X is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem and HPE NonStop.
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