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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"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."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The solution has good performance."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"They are reliable, and it's relatively easy to manage them. They also regularly provide patching for the servers."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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 upgrades could be improved."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"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."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 22 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 21 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 "Modular, extendable, and high-density". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Good service, reliable, and remotely accessible through the iLO feature". 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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