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 hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"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."
"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."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The technical support is good."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"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."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
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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