We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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."When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"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."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."
"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"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."
"The integration with other solutions could be better. I think Cisco can only integrate using Intersight. There is a second interface available as a SaaS platform, in the cloud, or on-premise. It's based on the Redfish protocol, which is standard for all the B-series servers in the market. We can integrate other solutions using API."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"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."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned."
"Stability."
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Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 120 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Stable and resilient, but slightly more complicated to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. DX Unified Infrastructure Management report.
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