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 solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"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 Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The solution has good performance."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"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."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The pricing could be less."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"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."
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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