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 are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"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 rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
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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