We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Cisco UCS E-Series Servers 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 most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The product is overall stable."
"Stability-wise, it is a good product that remains stable."
"The most valuable features are that they are efficient and easy to setup."
"Cisco has better visibility and manageability for disaster recovery."
"They are really easy to maintain. I've added RAM to them. I've done a lot of other things with the virtualization."
"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 product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"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."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement. There could be more collaborative tools included."
"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 tool must be made compatible with multi-vendor ecosystems."
"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."
"It is not a solution that is cloud ready."
"The processing capacity could be improved."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is ranked 11th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is rated 8.0. 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 Cisco UCS E-Series Servers writes "Easy to configure and operate". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is most compared with Super Micro SuperBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers report.
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