We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS B-Series and HPE BladeSystem 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 most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very reliable in comparison to the other brands."
"The stability provided by the product is its most valuable feature for our organization."
"The solution has the ability to reuse or divide the networking, making it a flexible networking environment."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and processing, which can handle a lot of throughput and are more powerful than the HPE series."
"The Boot from SAN function is good because using OTV, we can boot the device from any remote location."
"I can connect Cisco UCS B-Series to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console."
"Remote management features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of HPE BladeSystem is simplified management."
"The solution has good performance."
"They are reliable, and they hardly break down. They are fast, and they serve us very well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its high availability."
"Virtual Fabric and interconnects are easy to configure and maintain."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"I like the stability."
"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."
"The UCS manager interface needs to be cleaned up a bit and can be streamlined, but no major complaints."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"The license is expensive. Cisco should decrease the delay in the delivery of their products."
"Next generation support for VMware needs to be introduced as it does not support eighth-generation VMware."
"The initial setup process is complex."
"There are patches that cannot be implemented without any downtime or reboot required."
"We have to have Java to manage the infrastructure. It would be great if we can manage the infrastructure through a web browser."
"We would like to see OneView software features as an additional feature."
"Higher bandwidth interconnects could be introduced."
"The support you get is dependant on the region. Some regions are better than others."
"I would prefer to have changes in the compatibility of the blade servers with the new ones designed by HPE, as the top team's version does not have it."
"We have not needed to contact support because we have not had an issue. However, the partner support we had could improve. There are some disadvantages compared to Dell. The questions that are asked from the support are too lengthy, this causes a delay in support."
"The integration and price of HPE BladeSystem could be improved."
"There have been some hardware failures with them. These failures have since been solved by HPE support partners."
"OA updates and upgrades have to be made simpler."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6. 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 BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE Superdome X and Super Micro SuperBlade. See our Cisco UCS B-Series vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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