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."In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The product is easy to use."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The scalability has been good."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The solution is expensive."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"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."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
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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