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 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."
"The product is easy to use."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"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 solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"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."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"It could always use new tools."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"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."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
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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