We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE NonStop 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 product's tech support has good people."
"The most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"In terms of the flexibility of the tool to adapt to technology needs, I think it is a very good solution."
"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 GUI makes is simple to use and deploy."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of HPE NonStop."
"Feature-wise, the most valuable one is the fact that it has 100 hundred percent uptime every year. Secondly, it is stable."
"The stability of HPE NonStop is good."
"The configuration is a little bit complicated and could be made simpler."
"The pricing could be less."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"HPE NonStop could improve by having infrastructure management."
"It would be helpful if they brought the price down."
"It is not flexible...Not a lot of applications run on HPE NonStop."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE NonStop is ranked 9th in Blade Servers with 12 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE NonStop is rated 8.8. 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 NonStop writes "With a perfect record for uptime, the solution ensures a return on investment". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE NonStop is most compared with HPE Superdome X, Dell PowerEdge M, Fujitsu CX1000 and Oracle Sun 6000. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE NonStop report.
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