We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and PowerEdge C 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 solution is very unified and the technical team is very supportive, no help is needed from outside vendors."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"The product is easy to use."
"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 beneficial feature is UCS Manager. It's the best way to manage hardware, creating group policies, like scrub policies and maintenance policies."
"Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable."
"The scalability is very good."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The performance is good."
"The management platform is great."
"The hybrid solution is much more stable than other products."
"I like the feature that allows for a backup and that is suitable for me."
"One of the main features that attract customers to buy their products is the great management tool and almost zero failure rate, making it easy to use."
"PowerEdge servers have high CPU processing power, and the support is also good."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"I have found the compression capability the most valuable feature."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"Compared to the deployment of servers such as Dell XCDs, the deployment of UCS servers is more complex. They take longer to deploy."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"It would be easier if data center management and disaster recovery were combined."
"It would be better if it worked with SMTP servers on the cloud. Right now, it only allows notifications via the SMTP server. In the next release, I would like to have a better processor."
"It would be better if the solution provided simplified storage and hardware with an integrated one-tier architecture."
"There could be some more ports added in the future."
"There has been an increase in quality issues."
"Its customer service could be better."
"An area where the product lacks and needs to consider improvement is by allowing it to integrate with some AI tool for monitoring."
"There is some trouble with the stability part of the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while PowerEdge C is ranked 5th in Blade Servers with 23 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while PowerEdge C 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 PowerEdge C writes "Easy to deploy and has high performance and no downtime". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas PowerEdge C is most compared with Huawei FusionServer X Series, HPE Apollo and Dell PowerEdge M. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. PowerEdge C report.
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