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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution is stable."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"It's modular."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"I like the stability."
"It's very scalable."
"The scalability has been good."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The solution is expensive."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Its scalability could be better."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"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."
"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."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
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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