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Pros
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing.""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.""The solution is helpful for centralized management.""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.""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.""An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."

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"It's a stable product. I didn't find any issues with regard to stability. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.""The solution's technical support is good."

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Cons
"The product's pricing needs to improve.""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.""The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products.""There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved.""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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"This solution has a yearly licensing. In my country, it's really expensive.""My expectations were probably slightly more for the third-party tool integration; for example, regarding the analytics, I had some different tools. So, integration was not as good as I was expecting. So, analytics, configuration tool I was not really happy. So, there is room for improvement in context with integration with existing tools in our network environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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: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 »
    Top Answer:It's a stable product. I didn't find any issues with regard to stability. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:For a hybrid cloud area, I see some issues when on the hybrid cloud; you want to use this kind of solution. It doesn't work great everywhere. If it's a complete solution from them, then it's very… more »
    Top Answer:It's for hosting the telecom workloads. It is for cloud management. This solution has positively impacted real-time analytics and improved our system's performance. Although, it wasn't very much… more »
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    Overview

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

    AppFormix is an optimization and management software platform for public, private and hybrid clouds. This intent-driven software manages automated operations, visibility, and reporting in cloud and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) use cases for Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as Amazon Web Services. It features machine learning-based policy and smart monitors, application and software-defined infrastructure analytics, alarms, and chargeback accounting.

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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company25%
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    Government13%
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    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while Juniper AppFormix is ranked 28th in Cloud Management with 1 review. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while Juniper AppFormix is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper AppFormix writes "Good scalability, useful in terms of collective analytics, and low latency ". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director, whereas Juniper AppFormix is most compared with .

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