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 solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The solution is stable."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"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."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The only side that must be improved is the active-passive interconnect module architecture."
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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