We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and others in Rack Servers."Excellent server solution with incredible network throughput."
"The server can be configured easily."
"The hardware customization capabilities are great."
"It has centralized our server management and allows us to treat servers like a pool of resources instead of discrete devices."
"The solution is stable."
"The technical support from Cisco is fine."
"The product doesn't take up too much space on the rack and I like that."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the expansion and replacement of parts."
"The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView."
"HPE Synergy has been dependable for the past 15 years."
"We like that the solution can be arranged for an all-in-one single pane of glass, something our customers find important."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"In the data center, you see customers with a lot of blade enclosures and a lot of servers, and this solution works fine."
"Where it used to take one week to re-image or upgrade our hosts, it can now take one day."
"I love the satellite architecture for the Virtual Connect. I think this is great. I love the storage drawer, which you can present volumes to any compute node within the same frame."
"The composable infrastructure allows us to build our own server profiles, then build up the infrastructure that we need from compute modules."
"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where Cisco needs to focus on making some improvements."
"Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can improve by providing customization features to allow us to deploy them on the cloud. For example, we need VMware to allow us to accomplish a cloud deployment."
"There is room for better integration with other brands."
"Its accessibility and manageability can be improved. Currently, we have to visit the office to manage it. It should be manageable outside our network. I would like it to be on the cloud."
"The product must add customer-friendly monitoring features."
"Some customers have complained about delivery time. So, the main weakness is the lead time."
"The only thing I would change is to provide more proactive support."
"Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers could improve integration with third-party solutions."
"Product documentation is disorganized."
"The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back."
"Gen 11 is being released. That's going to have a lot of advantages over Gen 10 and previous generations in terms of the cooling modules in the servers to keep them cooler and run with more efficiency and better performance. There are more management features with iLO 6 and the latest OneView management."
"The initial setup was complex. We had a couple of bright engineers working on it, and they figured out a lot of things that they don't know... The problem was that they couldn't find documentation easily, to walk them through setup when they just didn't know the platform."
"I would really like a way to validate the firmware in my specific environment before trying to deploy it. Those were the issues we had early on with firmware upgrades, particularly around certificates. All in all, having some level of confidence aside from it just having been tested generically would help. Something more specific to my environment would be very helpful."
"They must improve the OneView tools."
"When templates are created, there are some steps where you need to reboot the machines. Being in production, this is not a good idea. For example, if you reconfigure the network, you should not have to reboot the machine. You should just apply the new template and that's it."
"The initial setup was complex. From what I was told, there were issues initially with getting the SFPs on the floor for our data center and something with the image, but I think that was on our service provider' side. They couldn't get the image to deploy with the right drivers and stuff."
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is ranked 5th in Rack Servers with 29 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers writes "The VIC card is the most important feature". 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 C-Series Rack Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Dell XR2 Rugged Server and IBM Power Systems, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and HPE Integrity.
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