Cisco UCS B-Series Benefits

JohnDeavers - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at ePlus Technology

Over the years, it's been it's come a long way from going from UCS manager to intersite managed solution. So we're doing a lot of cloud type management where we've been able to use that as which are like tenant managed services solutions with Cisco UCS and Hyperflex. We have managed services. Engineers that do manage all the customer's inter-site portal configurations, and then also we manage all the deployments, and pretty much we build run books and everything for them so that they know how to customers know how to how to work with their the hard new hardware for the hyperflex environments. Overall infrastructure-wise, we manage that for them, and they just manage internally.

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HN
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

This host-provisioning solution gives us peace of mind, SLA level, and ease of management from the operation team. It is reliable and gives me confidence when I upgrade firmware and expand the capacities of the data center.

Think about adding compute in 30 minutes instead of hours of technical effort. It reduced the amount of time that tech spent on support and operations instead of maintaining the whole infrastructure level.

ROI for the UCS manager solution is high and has lifted pressures and stressful burdens upon SWE.

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SB
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Management wise, I liked the "Service Profile" concept where we can create the appropriate profiles for the blades and just deploy them with ease. Time management and getting the configuration right is important so that there are no hassle during the initial setup. Performance wise, I like it better than the HP Proliant servers.

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Cisco UCS B-Series
March 2024
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Senior System Specialist at Burns & McDonnell

Running in the VCE Vblock gives us the flexibility to deploy a large virtual workload of servers. We use a mix of mainly Windows servers and a few Linux appliances.

I had one blade server fail. The replacement was up and operating quickly after the blade server was swapped over.

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it_user429375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Previously, we focused on CPUs and servers, relying on the Intel cadence for change. With Cisco UCS, we became network-centric and changed our mindset to abstract the server, making it a stateless object for workloads. Managing blade servers logically lets us take full advantage of Moore's law – which started with 640 cores per fabric and now provides 5760 cores for B200-M4 blades in our standard 20 chassis pods; more workloads per pod, and fewer people to manage them. This has significantly improved our OpEx costs.

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it_user68991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Engineering with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco UCS has reduced our physical footprint, drastically simplified management and created strong partnerships between engineering teams.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

It provides high availability with flexibility and a single point of administration using the Flexpod solutions. With all of the hardware on a single dashboard, it is easy to troubleshoot and to administer. The blade system provides faster back-end communication between systems.

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BW
Technical Sales Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have a client who is currently managing 1500 servers with two people for a mission-critical retail operation. Previous operations teams using HP and IBM servers required 4x more people to manage the same number of servers.

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it_user901308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The versatility of the solution is the most helpful to us.

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it_user333597 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Faster deployments of new and replacement hardware
  • Compact footprint saves valuable space on the rack.
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JD
Senior Solutions Architect & Consultant at ZAG Technical Services

Our company provides solutions that enable our customers to succeed. We thrive on our customers’ ability to see the value in our proposed solutions, so as to bring to their organizations a product that not only solves their current infrastructure constraints, but also resolves those that may arise in the future. We have many partnerships with several vendors in the same technology space, but we have aligned with Cisco due to their excellent blade server products and also their marquee products in the network switch arena.

Today, our business continues to grow with the inclusion of Cisco UCS at every possible opportunity. Now, even more than before, with go-market campaigns that focus on the Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and accompanying storage arrays that are supported by Cisco and Cisco UCS.

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it_user164016 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability, Flexibility to reuse the same Server with different projects multiple OS (VMware ESXi / Centos, Microsoft Windows) just in minutes by creating new service profiles.

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BB
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Remote access to the server is very useful.

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Neeraj Mehra - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

The overall consolidation of hardware is helping us.

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it_user287739 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Practice Manager at The Plow Group

We can be scalable to a greater degree using Cisco UCS. The options available and the connectivity to a Nexus switch with universal ports have been a game changer.

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it_user331470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Customers see benefits in the reduced time to deploy virtual servers. The ability to scale out quickly is an example of that.

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it_user413451 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

VirtualNICs/HBA allow us to redesign completely the IO schema (network and storage) without needing to upgrade or acquire additional hardware and controllers.

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it_user326826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security System Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's helped us to develop a new platform for virtualization, with a small footprint, and improved our computing power efficiency.

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it_user683436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have deployed 2-3 dozen UCS systems and managed many more for customers. Customers always love the unified management, speed of setup, and the improved performance after migration of workloads to UCS servers.

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it_user331449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

UCS has made it possible to replace and upgrade servers quickly and easily while keeping things up and running for the enterprise. 

Replacing the Fabric interconnects and IOMs can be done while the system is up and serving production data. You can almost effectively negate downtime from your organization as a result.

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it_user334806 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's faster to provision virtual servers than physical. Also, it has very good orchestration with UCS Director 5.2.

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it_user229368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am working with a Gold Partner company and we deploy this product to our customers, and so far we have deployed it in many clients and we have not received any complaints.

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it_user229479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Any Datacenter or organization implementing UCS-B series will find it easy for its IT team in terms of changes required to add more servers and redundancy.

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it_user402516 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can deploy new resources for applications very fast.

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it_user229368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customers and organizations are benefited by its scalability, flexibility, and the fact it takes less time to deploy.

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CC
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Its provisioning and ease of management have improved our functioning.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco UCS B-Series
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco UCS B-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.