From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good.

The best feature is its ability to associate with hardware profiles based on customer requirements.

Cisco UCS has different layers of security, and you can do multiple installations of your LIAMs on top of the server and Blade. You can install VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc. 

The solution's firmware upgrade has improved our operational efficiency. When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time. We can have a template service profile that can be applied to any number of servers. We just need to clone it and apply it. In case of a vulnerability, we just need to go to the template and change it. It's all policy-driven, which makes the admin's life much easier. Also, it will be consistent across all the infrastructure servers.

What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities. It's easier to set up, maintain, and configure the environment when you're using Cisco UCS Manager.

The interface is ergonomic and native. We can use UCS Manager to do all the configurations for the servers, including storage, networking, and all the other components we need inside the fabric. It's simple and flexible. 

Another nice feature is the inventory view of the system. It has an excellent dashboard for all the networks and network storage, such as SAN and VLAN, and the server chassis. It gives you a topology of all your solutions, which is helpful when troubleshooting. For example, when there is an issue in your chassis, you can see it in the dashboard. 

The most valuable features are flexibility and management. If you want a non-standard network or SAN configuration then Cisco UCS is very flexible. 

You can manipulate the ESX server network connection or SAN connections with Cisco UCS.

We are comfortable using Cisco UCS in our virtualization environment. We can control anything in the network or SAN site.

What would be the most valuable features for us are things we can't even work with yet. We work with an older version of the product that cannot do some things that we need. We can't install the next version because we cannot find great local support assistance for Cisco.

So, instead of using these features through Cisco, which is eventually what we want to do, we blend in with other solutions like Nutanix. The upgrade in Nutanix is very easy and doesn't require downtime. But with Cisco, we have already products and services in the server. We can't afford the downtime that it would take to make the upgrade and we can't find anyone professional to assist us with the problem at this point. 

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. I look at a single pane of glass to see how all of my hardware is doing.

If I'm playing with a new host, the most valuable aspect is that those servers can get a host up and running in quickly. 

We can configure the Cisco UCS Manager, the profiles and interactions with the resource we manage. For example, we had a problem with a damaged motherboard in a bank, so we had to replace that. Cisco sent the RMA, and we switched the motherboard, the CPUs and the memory. When we did that, we inserted the blade server with a new motherboard and the validation of all the new characteristics of the motherboard and the mezzanine port was recognized easily through the Cisco UCS Manager. We have been told that fixing this issue would not have been easy with other brands as it was with the Cisco UCS Manager.

Cisco UCS has a fantastic portal to do the core configuration.

The connection between the Cisco UCS server and the network is easy to use and easy to manage.

This solution has all of the requirements for the network using public extenders.

The dashboard is awesome and you can easily get all of the information that you want.

The reporting functionality will give you any report you want.

Cisco UCS Manager is a simple solution. Their technical support is good because whenever we need to generate a technical log, we can generate it from the console itself. It gives ease of management. Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it offers a GUI interface and a CLI. We use Cisco UCS PowerTool to manage through.

The most valuable features are the conferencing in the video and audio, it's a promising solution.

Cisco has the edge on the data portion. The compatibility between the Cisco infrastructure along with the UCS manager or any collaboration solution definitely has more levels.

The Voicemail is smart, it does a good job. It is a luxury that Cisco is providing.

The ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product.  

The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects.

Unification of storage as well as networking and compute and defining them with software (SDDC) are valuable features.

The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I also like the dashboard, as it is quite user-friendly.

I can quickly manage the provisioned servers.

It's difficult to pinpoint the exact features which are the most valuable to our organization.

It's a great tool for configuring all the features required for servers like storage, compute, and network.