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."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"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 is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"It's very scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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 initial setup process is complex."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The product could be made more secure."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"The price of the solution has room for improvement."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"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 support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
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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