We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Super Micro SuperBlade 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."The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The most valuable features of the solution are stability and security."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The solution does not scale well."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 8th in Blade Servers with 4 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Super Micro SuperBlade 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 Super Micro SuperBlade writes "Easy to set up with good technical support but does not scale well". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Integrity, HPE BladeSystem and Cisco UCS E-Series Servers.
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