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."From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"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 OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"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 BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"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."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
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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