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."I like that it's very manageable very easy to use and configure. I am not an expert, but the graphic user interface is quite simple very easy to use. It's a complete solution."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The product is easy to use."
"Basically, in a cluster, it works really nicely, especially within a cluster environment. Also, it's easily configurable."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The scalability has been good."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"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 GUI is not the greatest."
"Its scalability could be better."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"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."
"HPE has a replacement system called Synergy, though it’s a more high-end system than the old C7000."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"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."
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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