We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS E-Series Servers 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."They are really easy to maintain. I've added RAM to them. I've done a lot of other things with the virtualization."
"Stability-wise, it is a good product that remains stable."
"Cisco has better visibility and manageability for disaster recovery."
"The product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability."
"The Cisco chassis is very easy to configure and any network engineer or expert can configure the solution and easily integrate it with the chassis."
"The product is overall stable."
"The most valuable features are that they are efficient and easy to setup."
"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."
"The solution's greatest strengths lie in its ability to maintain a high availability and combine networking with hyper channel connectivity into a single component."
"The Online firmware update for the virtual connects has minimized our downtime windows."
"As we purchase and install more Synergy chassis, then we will be able to manage them together as one entity, as opposed to multiple separate cabinets."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"Everybody noticed very large improvement in data processing. A lot of activity which took hours now takes, let's say, tens of minutes."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"It is not a solution that is cloud ready."
"The processing capacity could be improved."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement. There could be more collaborative tools included."
"One thing that could be improved is the cost - it is very high for this Blade chassis as compared to other vendors. Especially in Asia. Asian customers mostly prefer a cost effective, cheaper solution."
"The biggest pain point for us is the matrix for the firmware upgrades. It is a pain. You look at that thing, you might as well be reading Greek. It would be a whole lot better if they could clean up their documentation on it."
"The tool must be made compatible with multi-vendor ecosystems."
"The product should also be available in a standard edition or a standard license since currently there is a need to pay for an extra license, which is very expensive, especially when considering the budgeting part of our company."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"One of the things that I would like to see, and could be in their road map, is getting virtual connect to 100 Gig throughput."
"The update is problematic. When you want to update the firmware, or when you want to update software on Composer, it takes a lot of time. A lot."
"There is always room for improvement. Based on our use cases, I don't believe there are any additional features required."
"I would definitely like to see them fix the firmware updates on all the blades. No matter what operating system it is running on, make sure I can do the firmware as well as the software for those firmware components at the same time. I don't want to have to rely on an external product. Let's bring that product inside the menu so that I have a better experience with updates."
"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."
"The possibility of using storage directly in the frame in order to have bigger storage directly there, and not having an attached storage like SAN or NAS. That would be helpful."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is ranked 11th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is rated 8.0, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS E-Series Servers writes "Easy to configure and operate". 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 E-Series Servers is most compared with Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy report.
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