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 are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"The scalability has been good."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"It is not expensive."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The product could be made more secure."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
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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