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."It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"I like that it's very manageable very easy to use and configure. I am not an expert, but the graphic user interface is quite simple very easy to use. It's a complete solution."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The technical support is good."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"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."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
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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