We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and Cisco UCS Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports."
"I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."
"The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration."
"Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before."
"You can scale it easily."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup."
"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills."
"The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution."
"I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain."
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director report.
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