We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Synergy 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 initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replace a server with another one, simply by applying the profile"
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The ratio in terms of the number of units and the number of servers that we can get each chassis is quite good."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The feature that I found the most value is the abstract and stateless capacities."
"Great data storage and very good for software defined solutions."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"It's a fully integrated solution with OneView."
"The solution help us to implement new business requirements quickly, since it is easy and quick to upgrade our capacity."
"It's a bit easier to manage than the C7000s."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"The manageability is its most valuable feature. It is a fully managed platform, which is very simple to manage."
"The product could be made more secure."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The solution’s technical support could be better."
"Cisco could improve the user-friendliness for less experienced users."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"One of the features I want to see, which I will see with OneView 5.0, is to have all the OneView consoles in a single pane of glass. That will make it easy to see everything in one place and not have to log in to multiple consoles."
"The speed in OneView and how it updates the entire configuration needs improvement. If they can do that, and it could be a little more clear on what impact different actions will have for certain things, that would be good."
"The installation and initial setup process is complex and needs to be improved."
"We had some challenges during the implementation and a few issues afterward, but they were all sort of related to how Synergy interacts with Nexus. Our Nexus on the network side is managed by another group, and they had just gotten Nexus, so they weren't really familiar with how Nexus even worked. Getting these two to interact well was the majority of our issues. It really didn't have anything to do with Synergy. It points to know the environment that you are putting it in and making sure you are dotting all your i's and crossing all your t's when you are figuring out what their requirements are to communicate."
"There is certainly a feature or two missing."
"I'd like to see the firmware updates, as well as the built-in OneView and imager in Composer, become a little more powerful and faster."
"The solution should support Cisco or other vendor interconnect models."
"The possibility of using storage directly in the frame in order to have bigger storage directly there, and not having an attached storage like SAN or NAS. That would be helpful."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 85 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Synergy is rated 8.4. 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 HPE Synergy writes "Local hard drives are not needed for the i3S module that boots to any operating system". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas HPE Synergy is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and HPE Superdome X. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE Synergy report.
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