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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"Great security and functionality."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"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."
"It is very stable."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"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 interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
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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