Cisco UCS Manager Reviews

Name: Cisco UCS Manager
Brand: Cisco
Rating: 4 (21 reviews)

Vendor: Cisco

4.0 out of 5

21 reviews
95% willing to recommend

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Cisco UCS Manager helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility. Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.

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Cisco UCS Manager is the #30 ranked solution in Infrastructure Monitoring tools. PeerSpot users give Cisco UCS Manager an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Cisco UCS Manager is most commonly compared to Datadog: Cisco UCS Manager vs Datadog. Cisco UCS Manager is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 75% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 33% of all views.

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Darryl Thompson

ICT Leader at Safripol (Pty) Ltd.

May 3, 2023

Our usage of Cisco UCS Manager is minimal. We're just using it as a telephony system. Cisco tends to over complicate all of their solutions. Cisco UCS Manager is not that flexible. Cisco technologies are always cumbersome, and you need a specialist's skills to use their products. That's why we used an integrator to deploy it and couldn't do anything in-house. So, from that perspective, it limits flexibility. Cisco UCS Manager virtually needs no maintenance. Since it's being deployed, it's pretty robust, which is typical for Cisco. If you implement it correctly, it is stable and resilient. Before opting for Cisco UCS Manager, do your evaluation upfront properly, and make sure you understand your use case. Also, look at alternatives from the perspective of support and the complexity of deployment. Those were the key areas we probably didn't look at, and as the project went on, we discovered the pitfalls. Overall, I rate Cisco UCS Manager a seven or eight out of ten.

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Joshua Kurian

Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

Apr 8, 2024

The solution's SDK and API can be integrated with ServiceNow for ticketing for any purpose. The solution's unified management interface is a central point of management that allows us to manage switches, blades, and storage connectors. One person is enough to maintain the solution. The speed of the network interface has been 100 G since day one. The network is scalable, and GPU nodes can be added seamlessly. Cisco is claiming to support water cooling in the near future. The solution can be easily integrated with other tools and platforms. Compared to Dell, Cisco UCS Manager provides straightforward configuration, reusable policies, and flexibility. Dell lacks a proper GUI for configuring everything. Cisco has only one GUI, which allows us to configure everything, including the network server and server profile. Before releasing each model, Cisco should conduct proper testing or engineering validation to ensure that the customer doesn't face any issues initially. Overall, I rate Cisco UCS Manager a nine out of ten.

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PankajKumar8

Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 22, 2022

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, so it's an area for improvement in Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCS Manager has an alert feature, so you can configure alerts when an error occurs, but what's missing is the alert for blade performance issues, such as CPU, memory, or network issues. For example, if the CPU utilization goes beyond eighty or ninety percent, the Cisco UCS Manager should be able to alert you, but that's not available now. I want to add more chassis to help with scalability in the next release to Cisco UCS Manager. The platform also needs performance monitoring for the hardware.

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Cisco UCS Manager market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Cisco UCS Manager in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category stands at 2.2%, marking an increase of 79.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."

Room for Improvement

"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."

Pricing

"We need to take a license for each port, which amounts to a big sum."
"Cisco UCS Manager’s annual licensing fee is expensive."
"Cisco UCS is more expensive than Dell and HP, but it is more reliable. I see less issues and it's quite stable."

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