We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and HPE Synergy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and others in Rack Servers."The VIC card is the most important feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is performance."
"The most valuable features of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers are agileness, ease of operation, and manageability."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is server management."
"The solution is reliable and easy to use."
"We have many people in my organization using Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers in the administration."
"The server can be configured easily."
"It is very stable and easy to use. It integrates easily with Cisco's cloud-based UC solutions. There are tools for management that make the management a bit easier, but we don't use them. We don't use what you would term as power users."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"Shorter delivery times. Where we now have a delivery time of about six weeks, we hope to go back to days."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"It's more composable, you can use storage as well as compute blades. So maybe it's more versatile compared to the traditional blade systems."
"In the data center, you see customers with a lot of blade enclosures and a lot of servers, and this solution works fine."
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"It has had a positive effect on the efficiency of our IT infrastructure team. The manageability of it is so easy, we're able to install it quickly, and replacement parts are easy to get in and out quickly."
"The C-Series is not designed to be as scalable. They are designed to have enough RAM and enough CPU on their own side. If you want scalability, it's better to choose the B-Series— the Blade Servers — because those are much more scalable with Fabric Interconnect."
"Definitely the support area needs improving. Especially the time response in case of hardware failure."
"The hard drive of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is not very good. I have already replaced three of them."
"In the version we need to use, the manager is still reliant on a full Java install on a Windows OS. This is inconvenient and problematic if you have multiple management tools on different versions of Java or if you move to a machine without the appropriate Java environment."
"Some customers have complained about delivery time. So, the main weakness is the lead time."
"The price of the solution is problematic, not the solution itself. It could be less expensive."
"Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers could improve by adding a wider portfolio because they only have two main categories, the C-220 and 240. There is no wide range of options as other solutions have, such as Dell. Additionally, if it was more flexible with the configuration it would be good."
"The improvement should be done as per customer requirements."
"The deployment time of a system through OneView is pretty slow, but apparently that's being addressed in an upcoming update."
"Technical support was time consuming and unsatisfactory. The initial product setup was complex, lasing around three weeks to a month."
"If it would be possible to connect clusters of five with other clusters, so that they could all share resources, that would change the game for us. It would make it a viable solution for us."
"After delivering the contract, they became a little less active. So, it needs some pushing from my side sometimes."
"The stability is not good right now. We have had a couple of outages where we have receive very good support from HPE. However, we have not been able to come up with cut and dried reasons for why the outages have occurred. They have not been able to be reproduced, so it has been difficult getting our trust back."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"We had an issue during the initial setup with the 40 Gigabyte cards. They weren’t working, so we had to work really closely with HPE support to get them to work."
"Technical support for this solution has a very good initial response; however, escalation takes time, and most of the time the first level of support cannot solve your case."
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is ranked 5th in Rack Servers with 29 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is rated 8.4, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers writes "The VIC card is the most important feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Dell XR2 Rugged Server and Oracle SPARC Servers, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, Cisco UCS B-Series, HPE Apollo and HPE Integrity.
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