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."From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"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 has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The technical support is good."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"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."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The product could be made more secure."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"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."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
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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