We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE BladeSystem 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 most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"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."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The technical support is good."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The solution has high performance."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"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."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6. 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 BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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