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 beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"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 features of the solution are stability and security."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution is stable."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"The solution has good performance."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"It could always use new tools."
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 and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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