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."It's modular."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"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 HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"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."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"It could always use new tools."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"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."
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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