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."Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"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 solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"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 solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution has high performance."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"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 scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
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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