We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Lenovo Flex System 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."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"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 solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"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 is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The Lenovo Flex System is very stable."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The stability and speed are always good. The processor is good and it's still working with our loads."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"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."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"Flex System's integration with the XClarity Management System could be improved."
"The user-interface needs improvement, because they have an application from which we have to manage the whole system and all the infrastructure. This application is not working at our premises, because of some problem with the hardware itself. So although we brought it with our systems, and we used it to manage all the systems: the storage, the switches, and everything, nevertheless we have to support every part alone and enter the interface in one-by-one."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
"The product could improve its integration capabilities."
"It does not have the same module flexibility that was present in IBM Blade. On the Blade System, I was able to choose between the Cisco module, or BMC module. Since the switch to Lenovo, I have not had the same choice of modules, only the BMC modules."
"Forced restarts due to free upgrades is an issue that needs to be resolved. We can manage this as we have high availability and redundancy, but without that it could be a real problem."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Lenovo Flex System is ranked 10th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Lenovo Flex System is rated 8.2. 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 Lenovo Flex System writes "Provides a high initial ceiling before upscaling is required, user-friendly and rich in resources, but has occasional stability issues". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and HPE Superdome X, whereas Lenovo Flex System is most compared with HPE Superdome X, HPE Synergy and Dell PowerEdge M. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Lenovo Flex System report.
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