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's tech support has good people."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"The solution has high performance."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The solution is expensive."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"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."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"It could always use new tools."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
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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