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."Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"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."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
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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