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."Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"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 hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The technical support is good."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The solution has good scalability."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"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."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
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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