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 most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"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 feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"The scalability is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"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."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"The product is quite stable. Its performance is reliable."
"The scalability has been good."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"They could include some embedded software for container technology."
"The interface in terms of management could be much more intuitive."
"HPE BladeSystem that we are using is currently very old. It's not too good. We haven't renewed it. I would like the solution to have more updates."
"It is lacking in the ability to replicate virtual machines more easily."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"I would like OneView to go over the current limit of 40 instances."
"It would be nice if the solution were cheaper."
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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