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 beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"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 scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"It is not expensive."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The pricing could be less."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
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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