We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Lenovo Flex System 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 most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The solution is stable."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The product is easy to use."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"The Lenovo Flex System is very stable."
"The stability and speed are always good. The processor is good and it's still working with our loads."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved and made cheaper."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"Forced restarts due to free upgrades is an issue that needs to be resolved. We can manage this as we have high availability and redundancy, but without that it could be a real problem."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The user-interface needs improvement, because they have an application from which we have to manage the whole system and all the infrastructure. This application is not working at our premises, because of some problem with the hardware itself. So although we brought it with our systems, and we used it to manage all the systems: the storage, the switches, and everything, nevertheless we have to support every part alone and enter the interface in one-by-one."
"Flex System's integration with the XClarity Management System could be improved."
"The product could improve its integration capabilities."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
"It does not have the same module flexibility that was present in IBM Blade. On the Blade System, I was able to choose between the Cisco module, or BMC module. Since the switch to Lenovo, I have not had the same choice of modules, only the BMC modules."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Lenovo Flex System is ranked 10th in Blade Servers with 7 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Lenovo Flex System is rated 8.2. 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 Lenovo Flex System writes "Provides a high initial ceiling before upscaling is required, user-friendly and rich in resources, but has occasional stability issues". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and HPE Superdome X, whereas Lenovo Flex System is most compared with HPE Superdome X, HPE Synergy and Dell PowerEdge M. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Lenovo Flex System report.
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