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 most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"I like that it's very manageable very easy to use and configure. I am not an expert, but the graphic user interface is quite simple very easy to use. It's a complete solution."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"It is very stable."
"The solution has high performance."
"The solution has good performance."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
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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