Cisco UCS B-Series vs HPE Superdome X comparison

"Great security and functionality."

"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."

"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."

"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."

"The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."

"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."

"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."

"The GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."

"I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."

"One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it."

"Superdome X is a system that can compete in terms of performance and uptime, but it's now standard. That is the great value. There are competitors like IBM, for example, but IBM has a propietary operating system. With Superdome X, you have a system that can run Windows, Red Hat, or VMware, but in a mission critical server."

"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."

"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."

"We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."

"This product is very reliable."

"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."

"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The product could be made more secure."

"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."

"The product pricing needs improvement."

"The price of the solution could improve."

"Right now, the market is rapidly transitioning to solid-state media and the Cisco options tend to be less varied and more expensive than a broader slate of products from HP, Dell or IBM."

"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."

"What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver.""

"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud."

"I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."

"In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful."

"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."

"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing costs of the solution on a yearly basis. Price-wise, it is an expensive product"

"The price of this solution is a little bit higher, but given that this system is Cisco, it feels more secure and dependable."

"Make sure you work with a vendor partner than can get you a substantial discount off of list pricing."

"The cost of the blade servers is okay, but the cost of Fabric Interconnects ends up increasing the overall costs. For example, suppose it costs 3,500 USD per blade server. When you include the Fabric Interconnects, you could pay up to 30,000 USD. Therefore, compared to the cost of servers from Lenovo, Huawei, Dell, or HP, the cost of Cisco servers can be high. However, Cisco gives good discounts (about 90% to 94%) to partners and to customers who are already using Cisco servers. New Cisco customers do not get the level of discount that an existing customer does. Because you can get discounts with Cisco, I would give pricing a rating of four out of five."

"The type of service level purchase will determine the level of support response that you receive from Cisco."

"UCS is expensive, and we will be migrating to the cheaper HP servers."

"Pricing with Cisco is very high."

"A physical licensing fees needs to be paid."

"There is a very expensive one-time cost with no licensing fees."

"The pricing is not very cheap. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very inexpensive, and ten being very expensive."