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."What I really like about the Cisco USC Server is its service profile."
"The technical support from Cisco is fine."
"We have many people in my organization using Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers in the administration."
"On the Cisco side, there is a benefit in terms of server management. Cisco provides UCS Manager, which is a multi-tenant site manager. We can manage multiple sites while maintaining disaster recovery, a feature not available on other platforms."
"The solution is easily scalable."
"It is very nice and stable with an easy administration GUI."
"Cisco rack servers are very easy to integrate with other products from different vendors."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is server management."
"OneView, as a single point, a single management tool, it makes me delirious. It's really nice."
"It is first in class for composable infrastructure. It has the scalability that meets our future needs and the automation that builds into something that we are really looking forward to using."
"With OneView, we can take care of all our servers in one dashboard."
"We bought it with the intent to replace the c7000 workstation blades. It is bigger than the workstation blades in core count, memory, and graphical capabilities. So, it has broadened us in that regard, and we have more capabilities."
"The i3S module can be configured to provision storage to all blade servers and boot to any operating system without needing local hard drives."
"We've found the scalability to be reasonable if you are ready to invest in it."
"We have more control over the firmware and how we are managing our physical servers."
"The processing time has been about 50 times faster and allows us to do AI models."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"There is very little scalability for the cluster. If you need a higher availability, there is a user limitation. So that is the low side."
"The pricing is too high and no discounts are available for our country."
"The warranty and support periods should be extended."
"Some customers have complained about delivery time. So, the main weakness is the lead time."
"The improvement should be done as per customer requirements."
"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."
"The hard drive of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is not very good. I have already replaced three of them."
"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."
"The Synergy platform is HPE-specific and more for on-premises. You're kind of locked in with VMware and the HPE with the VMs. The Nutanix offering is a bit more flexible."
"There is certainly a feature or two missing."
"Gen 11 is being released. That's going to have a lot of advantages over Gen 10 and previous generations in terms of the cooling modules in the servers to keep them cooler and run with more efficiency and better performance. There are more management features with iLO 6 and the latest OneView management."
"HPE Synergy could improve its remote support."
"A big thing for me is moving InfoSight for ProLiant into OneView, or at least connecting it. Today we have to use the iLO Amplifier Pack and that would require us to reconfigure iLO on every single one of the servers, independently, to get that data into InfoSight. We're really looking for a single control and management plane."
"One of the things that I would like to see, and could be in their road map, is getting virtual connect to 100 Gig throughput."
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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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