We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"Cisco UCS has different layers of security, and you can do multiple installations of your LIAMs on top of the server and Blade. You can install VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc."
"The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible."
"What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards."
"It's easy to spin up VMs and makes cluster maintenance easy, especially with the LCM (Life Cycle Manager) that is built-in. That helps do installs of AHV or even ESXi. You can also upgrade the AOS software that runs the Nutanix clusters. And you can upgrade the firmware, which is nice."
"Resource monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"The recent life cycle management feature is really helpful to us. Before that, we had to do everything manually, but now it's like a one-stop shop. We can upgrade firmware and all of the software from there. Also, managing storage information and other hardware-related resources is easy using Prism."
"Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling."
"Aside from ease of use, scalability is one of the key points of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is that, when you log in, you have customized dashboards. You can add widgets to those dashboards and you can change the density of certain data points in the dashboards. When I log in, I quickly see where the cluster lies, as far as memory and CPU resources go."
"The pricing is very good if you compare it to other competitors."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
"The pricing can be better."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"Cisco UCS is expensive compared to others. The Cisco UCS Chassis is more expensive than a standalone server, but some companies require standalone servers because of their production load and affordability. You need to pay more if you require more features on the Blade or if you need more ports on the switch."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"The integration with other solutions could be better. I think Cisco can only integrate using Intersight. There is a second interface available as a SaaS platform, in the cloud, or on-premise. It's based on the Redfish protocol, which is standard for all the B-series servers in the market. We can integrate other solutions using API."
"The interface and the way it is constructed is very complex. They should work to simplify it. It's quite difficult for somebody who doesn't know the product very well. Users should be able to get proficient with it faster. There's definitely room for improvement there."
"I wish the main landing page, the dashboard, could be organized in a way where, when there is an alert because something is wrong, I would not have to click three or four times to get to what actually happened. I wish it were quicker to get to the bottom of the problem."
"On the technical side, although you don't need a shutdown to upgrade Nutanix, for downgrading you do. If it were possible that when downgrading CPU or memory you didn't have to reboot the VM, that would be very helpful for us."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
"The product currently fails to provide a complete view to customers."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"The solution should offer the ability to change network settings without removing the network card from the virtual machine."
"Nutanix does not support all of the Linux distributions, so we have to use VMware in some cases."
"The VM backup could be better, and its licensing could be better. We have had some licensing issues with Nutanix Files. The default license should be 1 TB or more. Currently, for Nutanix Files sharing, we can only use 500 Gigabytes."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, HPE OneView, Zabbix, Datadog and Moogsoft, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), HPE OneView and Veeam ONE. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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