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."From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The scalability is very good."
"The architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The most valuable feature of the HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The solution has high performance."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"HPE BladeSystem is very easy to use."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"It is not expensive."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"The pricing could be less."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"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."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"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."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"The latest version of this system is called Synergy from HPE, and it comes with more advanced features. This is currently the most advanced solution available in the market. One of its key features is its energy efficiency, which optimizes energy usage."
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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