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 stable...The solution is scalable."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The product is easy to use."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"The technical support is good."
"It provides a secure access to the console and reliable administration."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management and the robust design."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"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 connectivity speed could be improved."
"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."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
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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