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 Dual Fabric design allows for online/in-service upgrades during production with no impact."
"The initial setup is simple, and not very complex."
"The hardware is easily swappable and, utilizing the boot from SAN option, you can always keep your server intact due to the service profiles."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has."
"It is less time-consuming to deploy the software."
"The product is easy to use."
"Some of the features I like from this solution are it has a fast configuration, it is not complex, and has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the service profile."
"We build out a whole stack at one time, so we don't have to worry about it until that stack is full, then that gives us time to get the next one ready."
"The most valuable features are the evolution of our existing HPE portfolio, the integration with our existing tool sets, and the enhanced capabilities that OneView bring."
"In terms of managing our IT landscape, it helps by reducing complexity... We've taken one of our virtualization guys and turned him into a Synergy guy, and he's been able to understand the networking, he's been able to understand the OneView, he's been able to understand the Synergy. He manages all of those rather than our having to have multiple teams associated with it."
"It makes life easier for us when we are deploying new technology, as we have the building blocks already in place."
"Give us the ability to seamlessly migrate from one operating environment to another within minutes, which is invaluable."
"Support is very helpful."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease of management and the integration with OneView."
"The most valuable features of HPE Synergy are the two composers."
"It should be more user-friendly."
"The monitoring features and integration with other products can be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"The GUI is not the greatest."
"The graphic code that UCS can support is limited and less accessible than other systems."
"There is a delay in the product's reporting and the rebooting system compared to servers from other vendors."
"HTML5 interface is a much needed improvement over the old Java interface, but still needs a little work."
"The upgrades could be improved."
"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."
"The only issue that we had was our rack was too small. The product is heavy, so it took a lot to get it in there."
"We have flaky things, like a lot of bad fans."
"The initial setup was complex. It was slow and just didn't work. Even HPE couldn't make it work for 45 days."
"I would like to see more nodes in a single chassis so we wouldn't have to purchase additional chassis."
"It has affected the productivity of our development team in a bad way. When we first stood the hardware up 18 months ago, the image streaming capacity and capability were not very good at all. We had hoped that it would allow us to be more composable and be able to switch over from one version of an operating system to another version of an operating system. However, it wasn't ready for prime time yet. Therefore, we had to go back to a deployment of bare metal install. We are still waiting and trying to figure out how we can do the composable infrastructure."
"Changes to the solution are quite complex."
"I'd get the firmware to be a little more secure and a little more streamlined."
Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while HPE Synergy is ranked 1st in Blade Servers with 87 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, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade, 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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