We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Synergy 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 Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The initial setup is fine."
"I believe, compared to the C7000, it delivers a significant amount of innovation and flexibility,"
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any outages."
"The stability of the solution is very reliable."
"The composable infrastructure allows us to build our own server profiles, then build up the infrastructure that we need from compute modules."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"The scalability is great."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"The Synergy platform is HPE-specific and more for on-premises. You're kind of locked in with VMware and the HPE with the VMs. The Nutanix offering is a bit more flexible."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I would like the ability to take the storage tray that is in a chassis and share it out to multiple chassis, not just the servers within the same chassis. This would be more efficient with resources."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"The deployment time of a system through OneView is pretty slow, but apparently that's being addressed in an upcoming update."
"In the past, I have had issues with configurations."
"The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. 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 Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Apollo, HPE Superdome X and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE Synergy report.
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