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 has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The scalability is very good."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is its upgradability and centralized configuration."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The technical support is good."
"The scalability has been good."
"It also has a pretty solid design and management."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"It's very scalable."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"Non-disruptive firmware upgrades in all areas of blade technology."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"The servers are a little bit huge, so it would be great if they could renew the size."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"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."
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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