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 feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
"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."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
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 and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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