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 GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The product is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"It is very stable."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"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."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
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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