We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and Cisco UCS Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration."
"The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports."
"The initial setup process is straightforward."
"Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before."
"You can scale it easily."
"I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."
"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"The solution is helpful for centralized management."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain."
"The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw."
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills."
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution."
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director report.
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