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."Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare."
"We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"The HTML5 interface is very robust."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its storage flexibility, linear scalability, and perhaps ease of use and powerful support."
"The auto-update option is a valuable feature for us."
"We were impressed with Nutanix, overall. Some of the other main drivers for our switch to it were the simplicity of setting up our Nutanix clusters, ease of management, and that their support is very respected. There is an overall ease of use, compared to VMware. I'm sold on their product."
"Duplication and compression work for data in a hybrid solution."
"Nutanix Prism is very simple to use compared to other products. I have tried a number of tools, including VMware ESXi. Nutanix Prism is much simpler to use and we feel data transfers in it are very fast."
"I like the general usability for general configuration. It is sufficient for everyday operations."
"Aside from ease of use, scalability is one of the key points of this solution."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"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 found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"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."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"It doesn't integrate very well with any backup solution."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly. The dashboard and configuration should be much easier to use."
"Performance metrics and analytics could be improved."
"It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
"One thing I would like to see is one-click migration. I know that's on the roadmap, but we don't have it yet."
"The solution does not support creating hybrid disc clusters."
"The three clusters we have at our remote offices are just one-node clusters. If there were an easier way to upgrade items such as the BIOS, SATA drives, the BMC, et cetera, on those, that would be helpful."
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), Veeam ONE and HPE OneView. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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