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 scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"The product has been simple to set up."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution uses less cabling and less space in the data center."
"The solution is very fast and the power consumption is great."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"The solution is expensive."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The tool must provide integration with the cloud."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"HPE BladeSystems is an old technology that cannot fit all of the dynamic organizational needs of our company."
"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."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"The scalability is limited because you only have a 16-server by chassis."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
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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