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Cisco UCS X-Series vs HPE Superdome X comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS X-Series
Ranking in Blade Servers
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
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HPE Superdome X
Ranking in Blade Servers
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Tanesh Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.
Policy-driven infrastructure has simplified management and improved end-to-end troubleshooting
Regarding aspects of Cisco UCS X-Series that I would like to see improved, I was an operator and not in research, but everything seems up to the mark. Whenever I faced any type of issue, solutions were nearby, leaving me with few suggestions for enhancements. In terms of features and functionalities for improvement in Cisco UCS X-Series, I can say that if I compare Cisco UCS with other brands, I can proudly note features that must be included in Cisco UCS X. However, my experience is limited, as I primarily worked with Cisco UCS and sometimes Dell physical PowerEdge servers.
reviewer2056329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration
In this specific model, it could be beneficial to have a server configuration similar to Cisco, like the kind offered in HPE Superdome Flex X280. The ability to separate the chassis is important because we are forced to use two chassis even with lower loads. So introducing more flexibility in the Superdome environment would be helpful. One other problem is energy consumption. We are forced to use both chassis even when we only need, for example, all four processors. It's not always used at full capacity every day. When underutilized, we still need to have both chassis powered, which creates an energy consumption issue. While the machine can be configured to reduce consumption, the idea of having different possible configurations with varying chassis usage, similar to the Flex version, could be interesting for this model, too. This model leverages specific features of the Intel MAP board, so switching like in the Flex might be difficult due to the motherboard switching involved.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The features I appreciate most with Cisco UCS X-Series are profile, profile deployment, and the ability to orchestrate configurations across all of the compute."
"I find that Cisco UCS X-Series is the best option on the market at the moment."
"Cisco UCS X-Series is a totally policy-defined structure, so you have to define everything in the policy, and it is easy to use and manage."
"Since I installed Cisco, I have not faced any hardware issues, so we depend on Cisco for hardware for our servers and for other hardware such as switches."
"I find ease of management to be the most valuable feature, and it was easy to deploy, with the operational efficiency of Cisco in my IT environment being fine and very good."
"Cisco UCS X-Series scales with the growing needs of my organization very well, as much as you need it to with no issues whatsoever, and it scales whenever we need it to."
"I would tell you that if you are looking for a product that can be used by multiple groups especially multiple groups with one point of administration, Superdome is very good."
"We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."
"In summary, this is a good product and I recommend it."
"CPU and memory, it's just pretty good and helps us to support the students and the teachers of the school."
"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."
"This product is very reliable."
"It's an amazing product, an amazing technology, that has the best of that world: performance and uptime, and standardization."
"If you're looking for a solution where you need a lot of workload and power, it's a great solution."
 

Cons

"Cisco UCS X-Series can be improved with a longer lifespan. The products go end-of-support and end-of-life quicker than I would prefer."
"I find their pricing maybe expensive compared to others, but stable, with no issues and so on."
"On pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cisco UCS X-Series, I find the pricing to be very high. This is the one painful aspect."
"If we talk about the current market scenario regarding Cisco UCS X-Series, the products of various things such as RAM and hard drives have already increased a lot, which makes it quite a competitive market because you cannot control the prices for those things."
"We are in a life cycle replacement phase, and we face a situation where we have to upgrade the hardware, but to get to the next series, you have to upgrade all of it."
"I have heard that the chassis concept may be discontinued or not reintroduced by Cisco, and I hope that does not happen."
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
"Looking back to our original purchase of Superdome X, we bought the smallest model."
"What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver.""
"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."
"I'd like to see the onboarding of some storage class memory to really expand the already very large RAM, into something that could be even much bigger."
"The price of this product should be cheaper."
"The technical support sucks, would be understating it. Because the first line and the second line support tend to give out stupid suggestions that are completely useless, and they aren't listening to anything."
"There's a big upfront investment, but the total cost of ownership should be cheaper over the long term."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is not very cheap. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very inexpensive, and ten being very expensive."
"There is a very expensive one-time cost with no licensing fees."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
12%
University
11%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS X-Series?
I find their pricing maybe expensive compared to others, but stable, with no issues and so on.
What needs improvement with Cisco UCS X-Series?
Cisco UCS X-Series is okay, and I do not see any room for improvement. I do not know what additional features I would like to see in the future to make it better. I expect AI integrations in the fu...
What is your primary use case for Cisco UCS X-Series?
I have been working with Cisco UCS X-Series. I am the end user.
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Also Known As

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HP Integrity Superdome, HP Superdome X
 

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