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 Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"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."
"The solution has good performance."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The pricing could be less."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"The other similar solutions used different CLI commands than HPE BladeSystem. The HPE BladeSystem CLI commands should be the same as the other companies which would make it easier to manage. It would be better for the system administrators to manage HPE BladeSystem and other systems together. I wanted to configure this service with the CLI but the commands are different than the other solutions making it a bit more difficult."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"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."
"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."
"The problem is that when want to expand with a new chassis, you have to do everything manually. It's not automatic."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
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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