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 product's tech support has good people."
"The solution is stable."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"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 is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"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."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"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."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"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."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 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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