We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and WhatsUp Gold 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."The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"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."
"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 most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"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."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 39th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 22 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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