Blade Server Comparisons - Cisco UCS and HPE BL Series Models

The rapid digitization of our world results in massive growth in applications - traditional, cloud-native, hybrid apps, and more. Organizations everywhere are fighting to keep up with demands to support more applications in more locations than ever. Companies want flexible consumption models, consistent operations, and optimized security, performance, and availability across their data center environments.  

This blog will compare the Cisco UCS Blade Server and the HPE BL Series Blade Server, both market leaders in blade server technology.

Cisco UCS Blade Server Overview

Cisco UCS is designed to work with half-width and full-width, and even full-width double-height blade servers. Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are designed for compatibility, performance, energy efficiency, large memory capacity, manageability, and unified I/O connectivity.

Based on Intel Xeon processors, the proposed Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers can adapt to application demands, intelligently scale energy use, and offer robust virtualization while delivering reliability and security features to maximize the availability of mission-critical applications.

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers can help organizations:

• Advance server performance, flexibility, and scale for virtualized and non-virtualized applications.
• Deploy server applications quicker and manage connectivity as required.
• Minimize the number of adapters, cables, and access-layer switches needed for server LAN and SAN connectivity.

Cisco UCS Blade Server Models

The various Cisco UCS blade server models include Cisco UCS B200 M5/M6 Blade and Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade.

Cisco UCS B200 Series Blade Server

The Cisco UCS B200 Series Blade Server delivers flexibility, performance, and optimization for deployments in the cloud, data centers, and remote sites. This enterprise-class server gives market-leading performance, density, and versatility without negotiating workloads, including virtual web infrastructure, converged infrastructure, Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and enterprise applications such as SAP HANA and Oracle.

The B200 Series servers can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads through easy-to-use, programmable Cisco UCS Manager software, and Cisco Intersight.

Cisco UCS B480 M5 Series Blade Servers

The Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server provides excellent performance, enterprise-critical security, and stability for computing and memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory analytics, large-scale databases, and business intelligence.

With the Cisco UCS B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability of the Cisco UCS Manager. In addition, it also provides exceptional performance, flexibility, and I/O throughput to run your most critical and demanding applications.

With the Cisco UCS B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability of the Cisco UCS Manager. 

Feature Comparison Among Cisco UCS Blade Servers

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HPE BL Series Blade Server Overview

HPE BladeSystem is the foundation of HPE Converged Infrastructure and delivers the architecture for any workload from client to cloud. HPE BladeSystem provides cost savings, energy efficiency, and improved IT staff productivity compared to traditional infrastructures. HPE BladeSystem services use technology to accelerate business growth and can significantly reduce infrastructure costs.

HPE BL Series Blade Server Models

The available HPE models include the HPE ProLiant e910, HPE Integrity BL860c i6, HPE Integrity BL870c i6, and HPE Integrity BL890c i6 Server Blade. They come with the remote management feature called HPE iLO five, which helps to manage, monitor, and configure the servers remotely from anywhere.

HPE Proliant is an x86 platform, and HPE Integrity is a RISC platform operating system. Integrity is running on UNIX operating system, which is called HP UX. HP UX is a very light and advanced RISC-based operating system popular in the telecommunication and financial sectors.

Feature Comparison Among HPE BL Blade Servers

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