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 initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution is stable."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution has high performance."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution is expensive."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The product could be made more secure."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"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."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"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 would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"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 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 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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