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."In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The scalability is very good."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem is a scalable solution. It is a composable infrastructure which we can manage our external services. This is the one factor which I can see the server is much more suitable for the OneView console."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"No issues with scalability. We can scale by adding another enclosure."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"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."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"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 BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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