We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and PowerEdge C 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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The scalability is very good."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"Every new version is better than the previous one."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability of the solution met our needs."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"The solution provides good support and service."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The management platform is great."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"It would be better if it worked with SMTP servers on the cloud. Right now, it only allows notifications via the SMTP server. In the next release, I would like to have a better processor."
"There has been an increase in quality issues."
"The product’s pricing could be a little cheaper."
"The reliability needs improvement."
"The current memory could be improved."
"An area where the product lacks and needs to consider improvement is by allowing it to integrate with some AI tool for monitoring."
"A feature that needs to be added is the ability for full container storage."
"We had a few minor issues with compatibility on the latest version during the installation process."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while PowerEdge C is ranked 5th in Blade Servers with 23 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while PowerEdge C is rated 8.8. 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 PowerEdge C writes "Easy to deploy and has high performance and no downtime". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas PowerEdge C is most compared with Huawei FusionServer X Series, HPE Apollo and Dell PowerEdge M. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. PowerEdge C report.
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