We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE Superdome X 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 most valuable feature is the service profile."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"I like that the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The solution is stable...The solution is scalable."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The initial setup is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Stateless Blade is the best feature."
"We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good."
"I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable."
"The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience."
"Superdome X is a system that can compete in terms of performance and uptime, but it's now standard. That is the great value. There are competitors like IBM, for example, but IBM has a propietary operating system. With Superdome X, you have a system that can run Windows, Red Hat, or VMware, but in a mission critical server."
"This product is very reliable."
"SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications."
"One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it."
"Its scalability could be better."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The configuration is a bit complex, as it requires very high technical expertise to apply it."
"There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required."
"Cisco is expensive and difficult to manage. The product is not intuitive. It also needs to improve storage management and upgrades."
"The pricing could be less."
"The solution is difficult to set up."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"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."
"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."
"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.""
"HPE Superdome X can improve by adding a lot of cloud capabilities to allow this solution to be cloud-ready in case the customer wants to move it to the cloud."
"It would be helpful if you could do the maintenance completely online."
"I know we support Windows and I think it's Red Hat, and I'd like to see more OSs supported."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Superdome X is ranked 6th in Blade Servers with 11 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE Superdome X is rated 9.0. 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 HPE Superdome X writes "Robust product, helped with workload management and offers remote configuration ". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas HPE Superdome X is most compared with Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem and Lenovo Flex System.
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