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 features of the solution are stability and security."
"The scalability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The scalability has been good."
"It is very stable."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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