Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Reviews

Network and Infrastructure Operations Manager at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 26 2017

What do you think of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers?

Improvements to My Organization The Cisco solution has improved the new infrastructure development giving us the ability to create a compute-storage in-a-box solution. • Valuable Features It is very nice and stable with an easy administration GUI. It has reliable and compliant hardware components which are not "Cisco rebranded." • Room for Improvement Definitely the support area needs improving. Especially the time response in case of hardware failure. • Stability Issues We only had hardware issues from two disk failures. • Scalability Issues Absolutely we had scalability issues. We tried several times to upgrade, scale up, expand our infrastructure, but Cisco insists to demand excessive amounts of money. Much more than buying a new infrastructure. This behavior...

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Ron Reyer, Jr.

Director of Technology at a K-12 educational company or school with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 22 2018

What is most valuable?

Boot from SAN allows us to standardize all of our servers to boot up drives to the storage area network.

How has it helped my organization?

It has centralized our server management and allows us to treat servers like a pool of resources instead of discrete devices.

What needs improvement?

Not sure about the newest UCS Manager. In the version we need to use, the manager is still reliant on a full Java install on a Windows OS. This is inconvenient and problematic if you have multiple management tools on different versions of... more»

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What is Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers?

UCS C-Series Rack Servers deliver unified computing in an industry-standard form factor to reduce TCO and increase agility. Each server addresses varying workload challenges through a balance of processing, memory, I/O, and internal storage resources.

Also known as

Unified Computing System C-Series, Cisco UCS C-Series

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers customers

Advanced Medical Transport, Aegean Motorway, Anilana Hotels and Resorts, Artoni Transporti, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, City of Mississauga, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS), Kind en Gezin, Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Nationwide, Quest, Talbots, University of St. Gallen