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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"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 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 most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"It's very scalable."
"I like the stability."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The pricing could be less."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"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 solution is expensive."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"It will be discontinued so we will have to change to another product shortly."
"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."
"I am not sure if iLO is included or if there is a separate license. If it is not included, it should be included in the license. It is such a valuable feature especially because people are working remotely."
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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