We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Synergy 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 very good."
"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 most valuable feature is the service profile."
"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."
"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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
"Everything is combined in one chassis, you have storage, compute, networking. So you save a lot of space in the datacenter."
"Its versatility, performance, and size are most valuable. It is very decent for its size. It has very good performance and very good specifications."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"The temporal value of it. If I only need a particular amount of compute for a specific period of time during business hours, then at night, I'm running a bunch of batch jobs, or doing something else, that ability to swap a profile, swap templates, and have compute assigned to something else, saves significant amount of money. As long as you are tying it into the automation and orchestration layers, it becomes much easier to do."
"Valuable features include its dependability, reliability, and the ease of managing the system."
"It is first in class for composable infrastructure. It has the scalability that meets our future needs and the automation that builds into something that we are really looking forward to using."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"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."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The solution is expensive."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"I'd get the firmware to be a little more secure and a little more streamlined."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"The only issue that we had was our rack was too small. The product is heavy, so it took a lot to get it in there."
"I think we were promised a little more than we were given. It's true, they are working very hard to try to help remedy that."
"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."
"You can always improve some things."
"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. 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 Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE Synergy report.
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