We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism 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."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."
"From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"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 most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"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 solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"Everything has been valuable, without a doubt the server is self-managed with Prism in an efficient way, it solves possible logical errors to maintain production without interruptions, it's great."
"Nutanix Prism is very simple to use compared to other products. I have tried a number of tools, including VMware ESXi. Nutanix Prism is much simpler to use and we feel data transfers in it are very fast."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its storage flexibility, linear scalability, and perhaps ease of use and powerful support."
"The HTML5 interface is very robust."
"The biggest plus that I want to commend them for is definitely their one-click update/upgrade feature. I use Prism for that and it's so amazing. That, by itself, is a selling point."
"Nutanix Insights... does analytics on resource usage for all virtual machines to determine if they are using the allocated resources efficiently or if they are wasting them. It gives us insights into which virtual machines are using the resources over the past months or weeks or days, and which ones are not using them. That way, we can rearrange resource usage for the virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is that, when you log in, you have customized dashboards. You can add widgets to those dashboards and you can change the density of certain data points in the dashboards. When I log in, I quickly see where the cluster lies, as far as memory and CPU resources go."
"Prism is easy to scale."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"The installation and upgrade sytems need to be improved."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"The simplicity that Prism provides is something of a dual-edged sword. It can be almost too simple at times. When there is an issue and something is really wrong, it can make it a little more difficult to track it down because the Prism interface is very limited for drilling down into those highly technical or highly complicated errors."
"Nutanix Prism needs more flexibility commercially and more flexibility with their licensing. Currently they're very fixed on their licensing model, for example, it's based on terabyte calculation."
"The licensing cost has room for improvement."
"They don't have many organized documents for troubleshooting problems. If you look at the support portal or the website, you will not get detailed information about problems or redirection to more information. They should continue working on the software solution but enlarge the documentation."
"The life cycle management or LCM feature is the most complicated. It takes really long and is unpredictable for our use cases. They should provide more detailed information about the kind of LCM to go for, various errors, and different kinds of tasks. For analytics for certain configurations, we require more details with the report. Sometimes, not all elements are present for support, management, and configuration. For troubleshooting, it would be very easy and useful if we can analyze log files directly from Prism, that is, not from the command line but directly from Prism."
"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."
"Does not yet have micro application using a company's provider."
"The price could be improved."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. 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 Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, HPE OneView, Zabbix, Datadog and ServiceNow IT Operations Management, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Veeam ONE and HPE OneView. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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