We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"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 scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The most valuable features are the Metro clustering, and disaster recovery."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"It has absolutely simplified our storage because the dashboards on the consoles show a clear understanding of where you are, and it is also very easy to provision. This been a big help for our teams."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The integration is an area where Cisco UCS B-Series needs to provide users with more details."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The solution is expensive."
"Commvault has mainly driven the Analytics, providing data and reports. However, the product has room for improvement, especially regarding storage analytics. Upgrading firmware has caused issues, requiring feature disabling to revert to traditional backups. The firmware upgrades sometimes affect Commvault backups."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"The speed could be improved."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"I have not seen ROI."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
"We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 31 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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