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 most beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"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 architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"It is a very robust and reliable solution."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This product uses a converged network adapter because it is the only way to provide flexibility with both fiber and ethernet connections."
"It is more expensive than the competitors."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The price of this product is too high. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The product could be made more secure."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"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 7th 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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with HPE Integrity, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem and Cisco UCS E-Series Servers.
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