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."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"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 most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ease of use."
"Flex System's best features are its performance and stability."
"The product is very user-friendly and has many resources at the enterprise level."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Integration with storage could be improved."
"This model does not support virtualization of the switch."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better."
"Flex System's integration with the XClarity Management System could be improved."
"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 product could improve its integration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of the Lenovo Flex System is the storage system."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with other platforms."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 17 reviews while Lenovo Flex System is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 5 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 9.0, while Lenovo Flex System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "Processing of our system has greatly improved due to the CPU, functionality and security features". 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 and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas Lenovo Flex System is most compared with HPE Superdome X, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M and HPE BladeSystem. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Lenovo Flex System report.
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