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 product is easy to use."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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 bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"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."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
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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