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 product's tech support has good people."
"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 solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The solution is scalable, offering flexibility and expansion options to meet changing business needs."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"The solution is issue-free and works almost flawlessly."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"It could always use new tools."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"Some part of virtual connections needs improvement."
"BladeSystem is an old-fashioned server and not very well developed for new features and new areas of data centers, which is not very good for enterprise companies."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
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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