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 architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"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 solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"The solution has high performance."
"I like the stability."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"It is very stable."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"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."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"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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