G2 Vendor Directory

Cisco Blade Servers vs. PowerEdge Rack Servers

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCisco Blade Servers

by Cisco

PowerEdge Rack Servers

by Dell Technologies

Overall rating4.44.7
Review count1415
Ease of use8.69.3
Ease of setup7.39.3
Quality of support8.99.3
Meets requirements9.59.7
NPS57.14285780
Small Business12.5%0.0%
Mid-Market75.0%0.0%
Enterprise12.5%100.0%
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Total LLM citations18672

Cisco Blade Servers

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are high-performance, modular servers designed to optimize data center operations by integrating computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system. These servers are engineered to deliver exceptional performance and scalability, making them suitable for a wide range of applications, from virtualized environments to mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Pros

    PowerEdge Rack Servers

    Drive demanding workloads including VDI, AI/machine learning and private cloud with workhorse servers that deliver the optimum balance of storage, I/O, application acceleration and configuration flexibility. Highly flexible configurations with up to 16 x 2.5-or 8 x 3.5- drives, 8 PCIe slots, 24 DIMMS (including 12 NVDIMM-Ns) 50% more accelerator card support with up to 3 x 300W or 6 x 150W cards Industry-leading energy efficiency with correct air flow delivered to each PCIe slot via multi-vector cooling Internal storage subsystem optimized for M.2 boot

    Pros