We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Dell PowerEdge M 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 architecture of this solution is very valuable; it has five traffic interconnects, and uses a network highway so bandwidth is never an issue."
"The solution's most valuable feature is KVM Launch Manager."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerEdge M is iDRAC."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."
"The solution is made with high-quality hardware."
"The networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"It is easy to manage by an administrator and we can spend valuable time on other IT issues."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"For future improvements, it would be a benefit if the solution could integrate better with products such as Oracle."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"The main issue with this solution is that it is quite vendor-restricted, meaning that when we use third party software, we cannot use all of the available configuration tools or pre-validated design features."
"USC Central seems a bit confusing for technicians."
"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 high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs."
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"It requires time to transition to the new generation."
"Technical support is not good."
"There is room for improvement in scalability."
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 14 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4. 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 Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex to set up". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Synergy, HPE Superdome X, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE BladeSystem and Fujitsu Primergy BX900 Series. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Dell PowerEdge M report.
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