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."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"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 most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The solution has high performance."
"The solution has good performance."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The pricing could be less."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"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."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"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."
"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."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"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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