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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"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 initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"It's modular."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"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 most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"Cabling complexity and volume have been reduced."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The product could be made more secure."
"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 upgrades could be improved."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
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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