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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"Great security and functionality."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The technical support is good."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution has good performance."
"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."
"It is not expensive."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"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."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
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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