Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs HPE Synergy comparison

Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Blade Servers category. Cisco is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4. Cisco holds a 1.6% mindshare in Blade Servers, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 21.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

Read 7 Cisco UCS E-Series Servers reviews

246 Views
109 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

HPE Synergy

Read 89 HPE Synergy reviews

3,366 Views
2,439 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

HPE Synergy

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS E-Series Servers and HPE Synergy 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy Report (Updated: December 2024).

Buyer's Guide

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy

December 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 824,067 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

Ranking in Blade Servers

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Synergy

Ranking in Blade Servers

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Composable Infrastructure (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS E-Series Servers is 1.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Synergy is 21.8%, down from 22.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Blade Servers

Featured Reviews

DavidMbugua

Group General Manager-ICT at SkyLink

Stable product with efficient security features

We use Cisco UCS E-Series Servers to host enterprise systems The product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability. We rarely encounter downtime issues, and it has an expandable memory storage. Additionally, it blends well with Cisco's security tools. The platform's pricing…

Read full review

CarlosArdila

Project Manager, Information Technology at Telelago

Helps grow horizontally or vertically within one box or chassis

The initial setup is very easy. We deployed this in two days, including installation, system setup, firmware upgrades, configuration, and network connection. By the next day, we were already deploying virtual machines. We initially began with the Blade system. As the migration to SAP HANA approached, it seemed prudent to upgrade our hardware. Consequently, we facilitated their transition from the Blade system to Synergy. Subsequently, we collaborated closely with the SAP consultancy company to oversee the migration process, ensuring seamless integration of all workloads and sub-environments. We have four people working on the deployment, including a project manager, two specialists, and one tech support.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Cisco has better visibility and manageability for disaster recovery."

"The product is overall stable."

"They are really easy to maintain. I've added RAM to them. I've done a lot of other things with the virtualization."

"The product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability."

"The most valuable features are that they are efficient and easy to setup."

"Stability-wise, it is a good product that remains stable."

"The Cisco chassis is very easy to configure and any network engineer or expert can configure the solution and easily integrate it with the chassis."

"The most valuable features are the evolution of our existing HPE portfolio, the integration with our existing tool sets, and the enhanced capabilities that OneView bring."

"I believe, compared to the C7000, it delivers a significant amount of innovation and flexibility,"

"The scalability is very good. The ability to link chassis or frames together makes it simplistic, especially with the use of OneView."

"It gives us ease of use. It's nice because we don't have to mess with networking once it's set up. Once it's done, we just put another blade in and go from there. We don't have to go back in, run more cables, deal with more data center stuff. We stick a blade in, use the server profile template, build out a server profile from that, and it just goes."

"It makes it simpler for me to manage my environment. It is one pane of glass, compared to multiple."

"As we purchase and install more Synergy chassis, then we will be able to manage them together as one entity, as opposed to multiple separate cabinets."

"Support is very helpful."

"The flexibility to link them together and configure them gives us the ability to scale out easily, to add more compute resources as needed... The way that they're scalable and flexible means we can add additional servers in quickly... We're not spending a lot of time doing procurement and building of physical servers."

More HPE Synergy pros

Cons

"The platform's pricing needs improvement. There could be more collaborative tools included."

"The biggest pain point for us is the matrix for the firmware upgrades. It is a pain. You look at that thing, you might as well be reading Greek. It would be a whole lot better if they could clean up their documentation on it."

"One thing that could be improved is the cost - it is very high for this Blade chassis as compared to other vendors. Especially in Asia. Asian customers mostly prefer a cost effective, cheaper solution."

"The product should also be available in a standard edition or a standard license since currently there is a need to pay for an extra license, which is very expensive, especially when considering the budgeting part of our company."

"The processing capacity could be improved."

"The tool must be made compatible with multi-vendor ecosystems."

"It is not a solution that is cloud ready."

"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."

"A faster Composer module would be a good inclusion for the next release of this solution."

"Continue the path of integrating OneView into a single product. A lot of different people have different OneView experiences based on which product they have used it for."

"They must improve the OneView tools."

"One of the issues that we that we have been having is with the firmware baselining. So, we need to just making sure that we get that working. However, we are in the early stages. It may well be that we just tweak a few things."

"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."

"It would be nice if the updates were not accompanied by downtime."

"We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate."

More HPE Synergy cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive, they are quite pricey."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing costs of the solution. The most expensive server from Cisco is Cisco UCS B-Series."

"The pricing of the solution is reasonable. From a commercial point of view, the prices are okay."

"The product is expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"Nutanix was really hard to implement, and it was very pricey compared to what we get from Synergy."

"We don't have to pay for Synergy because it's part of our plan."

"The Nutanix platform came in a little more expensive than the Synergy."

"There was at least about a 20 percent savings in cost over our purchase based on the purchase price of the compute modules themselves versus what we've had to pay before. It was significantly less."

"We outright purchased Synergy."

"Synergy has lowered our total cost of ownership significantly. I would say ballpark around 25 percent, maybe more."

"We pay about £500 for the solution."

"Our IT infrastructure costs have gone up each year by 20 percent."

More HPE Synergy pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Blade Servers solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

824,067 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

No data available

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS E-Series Servers?

The product's most valuable features are stability, speed, and scalability.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS E-Series Servers?

The product is expensive. I rate its pricing a five out of ten.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Cisco UCS E-Series Servers?

The platform's pricing needs improvement. There could be more collaborative tools included.

See all answers

How would you choose between HPE's Bladesystem and Synergy?

For me, choosing between HPE’s Bladesystem and Synergy came down to which solution was more powerful, reliable, and stable. It turns out Bladesystem was the winner. Bladesystem is excellent because...

See all answers

What do you like most about HPE Synergy?

It is a good product for hypervisors.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Synergy?

Synergy is more expensive than Cisco.

See all answers

Comparisons

Super Micro SuperBlade vs Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

Compared 60% of the time

Cisco UCS B-Series vs Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

Compared 40% of the time

More Cisco UCS E-Series Servers Competitors

HPE ProLiant DL Servers vs HPE Synergy

Compared 24% of the time

HPE BladeSystem vs HPE Synergy

Compared 24% of the time

Dell PowerEdge M vs HPE Synergy

Compared 22% of the time

Cisco UCS B-Series vs HPE Synergy

Compared 9% of the time

HPE Apollo Systems vs HPE Synergy

Compared 6% of the time

More HPE Synergy Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

December 2024

Download Cisco UCS E-Series Servers product report

Buyer's Guide

HPE Synergy

December 2024

Download HPE Synergy product report

Also Known As

UCS E-Series Servers

No data available

Learn More

Cisco

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Overview

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are next-generation, power-optimized, x86, Intel Xeon 64-bit blade servers designed to be deployed in Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) and the Cisco 4451-X ISR. These price-to-performance-optimized single-socket blade servers balance simplicity, performance, reliability, and power efficiency. They are well suited for applications and infrastructure services typically deployed in small offices and branch offices.

HPE Synergy, the first platform built from the ground up for Composable Infrastructure, offers an experience that empowers IT to create and deliver new value instantly and continuously. It is a single infrastructure that reduces operational complexity for traditional workloads and increases operational velocity for the new breed of applications and services. Through a single interface, HPE Synergy composes physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric pools into any configuration for any application. As an extensible platform, it easily enables a broad range of applications and operational models such as virtualization, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. With HPE Synergy, IT can become not just the internal service provider but the business partner to rapidly launch new applications that become the business.

Sample Customers

Navaho, MiroNet AG, Columbia Sportswear

HudsonAlpha, Virgin Media, EMIS, United

Buyer's Guide

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy

December 2024

Free Report: Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy

Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy and other solutions. Updated: December 2024.

DOWNLOAD NOW

824,067 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Cisco UCS E-Series Servers vs. HPE Synergy report.

See our list of best Blade Servers vendors.

We monitor all Blade Servers reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.