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's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"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 platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The most valuable feature, of course, is its size as I can build a huge compute resource on it."
"The benefit is the density and the capability for global harmonization on the hardware, because all the hardware chassis are the same. We can also purchase the same network cards too, chassis by chassis, so it gives us a global solution."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"The product has a lot of options for checking servers and IoT ports using artificial intelligence."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"It needs a better UI. Cisco makes a great product, but doesn't know how to make a UI."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"There is always room for improvement everywhere with the HPE BladeSystem."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The response time in terms of getting technical support assistance could be improved."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
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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