We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and DX Spectrum 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."Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"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 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."
"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."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"Cisco UCS is expensive compared to others. The Cisco UCS Chassis is more expensive than a standalone server, but some companies require standalone servers because of their production load and affordability. You need to pay more if you require more features on the Blade or if you need more ports on the switch."
"Upgrading the firmware is a difficult procedure."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. 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 Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. DX Spectrum report.
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