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 most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"It's very scalable."
"I have noticed that the solution does provide a very good ROI for companies."
"It is not expensive."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"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."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
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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