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 solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"The interface and dashboard are excellent and user-friendly."
"The solution has high performance."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The technical support is good."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The solution is expensive."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
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 and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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