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 most valuable feature is the service profile."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"They are very fast and very reliable. They are working under very tough conditions."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"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."
"It's very scalable."
"I like the stability."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The pricing could be less."
"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 price of the solution could improve."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
"They should provide open learning materials and seminars for detailed knowledge of the product."
"This product needs a wider range of firmware compatibility matrix from the oldest to the newest blade server."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"Really look at it closely, but really look at the Synergy product as well. That seems to me like that's the next evolution of the BladeSystem."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
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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