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 scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The virtual connect and network management port is a valuable feature."
"The solution has high performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"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."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"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."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"We had a few hard drives that crashed, and we couldn't find them locally. We've tried internationally, but we are still struggling to get its spare parts. This is the main challenge that we have faced with this solution. Fortunately, the other drives are still working. There should be easy availability of spare parts. I should be able to request a quotation online from HPE for things that I am not able to get locally. Currently, I can order online, but when I type the serial number, most of the time, it is rejected. I don't know why it is happening. It could be because the company that sold us the system didn't buy it through the normal HPE channel. HPE should assist us as users to get the spare parts. Its security needs to be beefed up. I would like some security features. It was also challenging for us to set it up because we didn't get enough training from them."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 62 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 133 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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