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 feature is the service profile."
"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."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The product's tech support has good people."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"It is very stable."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"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."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"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 price of the solution has room for improvement."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
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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