We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS E-Series Servers 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 product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability."
"Cisco has better visibility and manageability for disaster recovery."
"The Cisco chassis is very easy to configure and any network engineer or expert can configure the solution and easily integrate it with the chassis."
"The most valuable features are that they are efficient and easy to setup."
"They are really easy to maintain. I've added RAM to them. I've done a lot of other things with the virtualization."
"The product is overall stable."
"Stability-wise, it is a good product that remains stable."
"Being able to connect my 3PAR arrays to the Synergy platform is the most valuable aspect to me."
"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."
"Ability to easily re-utilize parts of the hardware for different purposes."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"They're easy to swap and move around the datacenter, for sure. They don't occupy too much space for what they offer."
"We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities."
"We have more control over the firmware and how we are managing our physical servers."
"Changing the form factor in Synergy allows us to have more RAM, which is significantly helpful for us."
"The product should also be available in a standard edition or a standard license since currently there is a need to pay for an extra license, which is very expensive, especially when considering the budgeting part of our company."
"It is not a solution that is cloud ready."
"One thing that could be improved is the cost - it is very high for this Blade chassis as compared to other vendors. Especially in Asia. Asian customers mostly prefer a cost effective, cheaper solution."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement. There could be more collaborative tools included."
"The biggest pain point for us is the matrix for the firmware upgrades. It is a pain. You look at that thing, you might as well be reading Greek. It would be a whole lot better if they could clean up their documentation on it."
"The processing capacity could be improved."
"The tool must be made compatible with multi-vendor ecosystems."
"Changes to the solution are quite complex."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."
"Having a seamless DR implementation would help significantly."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"We'd like to see faster networking in the back-end."
"We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate."
Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is ranked 11th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 reviews. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is rated 8.0, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS E-Series Servers writes "Easy to configure and operate". 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 E-Series Servers is most compared with Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy report.
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