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."Great security and functionality."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"The solution has good performance."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"We are very happy with flexible NIC configuration features which are possible if you combine the BladeServers with HPE flex switches in the enclosures."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The pricing could be less."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"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 initial setup process is complex."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"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."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"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 response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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