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."Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The solution has high performance."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"The solution is expensive."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The pricing could be less."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"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."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"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 connectivity speed could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
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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