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 features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"It is very stable."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"For me, the most valuable features are integration and simple defining."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"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."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"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 interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
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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