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."Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"Great security and functionality."
"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."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"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."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
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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