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 scalability is very good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of management with the hardware."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"It is not expensive."
"It is a stable, dependable solution."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"I really appreciate the integrated Onboard Administrator, the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) modular network, and the SAN Switches."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"The product could be made more secure."
"Its scalability could be better."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The connectivity speed could be improved."
"If the hardware offered higher efficiency, that would be an ideal situation for our company."
"The management side of this solution could be improved."
"They are not selling BladeSystem anymore. The end of the sale of this platform was this year, 2020."
"It is really stable, however the motherboard sometimes crashes."
"I rate the stability of HPE BladeSystem a nine out of ten."
"The solution could improve by having more automation, such as the automatic mapping feature that is available in the Synergy Blade series."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Superdome X and Super Micro SuperBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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