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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.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"You can scale it easily.""The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration.""Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""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.""The initial setup process is straightforward.""Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.""I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."

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"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors.""The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost.""This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use.""Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product.""An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing.""The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features.""A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."

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Cons
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution.""The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together.""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.""They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""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.""The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."

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"The product's pricing needs to improve.""The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products.""We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure.""There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved.""The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API.""There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies.""It is not easy to add or expand the product.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
  • "The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
  • "The tool's pricing is expensive."
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  • "The cost of this solution is significant."
  • "Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."
  • "The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
  • "I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The initial setup process is straightforward.
    Top Answer:They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.
    Top Answer:We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.
    Top Answer:Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product… more »
    Top Answer:Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand. If Cisco UCS Director is able to integrate with another product or with a server from… more »
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    7.8
    24th
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    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
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    Overview

    The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

    With Cisco CloudCenter breakthrough application-centric technology, users
    can:

    • Model: Quickly and easily build a cloud-independent application profile that defines the deployment and management requirements of an entire application stack.
    • Deploy: Use one click to deploy the application profile and related components and data to any data center or cloud environment.
    • Manage: Apply a wide range of application lifecycle actions to set policies to enable in-place scaling, support cross-environment bursting or high availability and disaster recovery, and stop the deployment.

    Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
    Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company35%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company25%
    Retailer13%
    Government13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Easy-to-deploy and supports Amazon Azure, GCP and vSphere, but improvements are needed in UI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Operations. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. Cisco UCS Director report.

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