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 initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"From a return on investment perspective, Cisco UCS B-Series is worth the money."
"The solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"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."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"Modularity is a key feature that provides energy saving ."
"It is easy to scale if you have the licensing."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is the ease of management. It is easy to communicate from the server to the storage."
"When it comes to the BladeSystem, what we love about it most is being able to actually manage it using OneView."
"They have served different needs for us from virtualized web servers to dedicated databases and application servers."
"One of the most valuable features I have found to be the enclosure. It is really easy to manage and everything is integrated. You are able to upgrade the software quite easily."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The pricing could be less."
"Its scalability could be better."
"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."
"The cost is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"I would like to see the upgrade path a little bit smoother."
"For me, the product is okay, but I would probably suggest improvement in their services or technical support. They need to work harder in the preventative maintenance of the system. They need to improve in terms of how quickly can we get attention and how quickly problems are resolved. Its price could also be lower."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"If you compare it with Lenovo systems, the pricing is too high."
"We sometimes have compatibility issues depending on the browser that you are using. For example, sometimes you have to switch between Edge, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, or Chrome to have things operating correctly."
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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