We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and Super Micro SuperBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Dell Technologies and others in Blade Servers."The platform has valuable features for management and good monitoring tools. It provides efficient insights."
"The Dashboard is quite impressive and is, so far, the best based on my experience."
"The Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The solution is stable."
"It's modular."
"The most valuable feature that the B-Series has is related to the structure and architecture of the solution because in these solutions, you are using fabric interconnect as an interconnect device. The beauty of fabric interconnect is that it can work as in-house mode."
"Since its UCS release in 2009, Cisco has extended the core functionality with Central, a tool for managing multiple domains"
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The ability to save resource is a key feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I think the IPMI is a really good feature."
"The pricing could be less."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"The management interface needs a lot of improvement. As it is right now, it's a pain to use. It's not user-friendly."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The solution is expensive."
"Its scalability could be better."
"Supermicro blade servers are not the best. They could improve in scalability but are not really scalable right now."
"There is a lack of support for fiber channels currently that needs to be added."
"The solution does not scale well."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Super Micro SuperBlade is ranked 7th in Blade Servers with 4 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Super Micro SuperBlade is rated 8.0. 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 Super Micro SuperBlade writes "Easy to set up with good technical support but does not scale well". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Lenovo Flex System, whereas Super Micro SuperBlade is most compared with HPE Integrity, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem and Cisco UCS E-Series Servers.
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