Cisco UCS Series

Cisco UCS Series

Cisco UCS Series

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco UCS Series	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco UCS Series is a modular, high-density, high-availability, dual-node storage- optimized server suited for service providers, enterprises, and industry-specific environments. It provides dense, cost-effective storage to address your ever-growing data needs. Designed for a new class of data-intensive workloads, it is simple to deploy and excellent for applications for big data, data protection, software-defined storage environments, scale-out unstructured data repositories, media…	N/A

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	Cisco UCS Series
Considered Both Products	Cisco UCS Series Verified User Advisor Chose Cisco UCS Series Cisco UCS Series has better support. Incentivized Helpful? Joacim Wicander Senior Data Center Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series I think the Cisco UCS Series is better or at least as good as other servers, but the management of the Cisco UCS Series servers have a simpler management when using Fabric Interconnects. No other manufacturer of Server hardware is close to doing anything close to what Cisco has … Incentivized Helpful? GH George Hanson Network Engineer III Chose Cisco UCS Series Cisco UCS is great for VM server integration and scalability of resources. The reduced provisioning time to spin up a server helps ease the management and time spent by a server admin. It can also integrate well with fiber channel switches. It is also more power efficient then … Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco UCS Series Cisco UCS Series is potentially worse as far as experience and reliability, however, not to the point that cost should not be the deciding factor. Incentivized Helpful? RC rolando cruz System Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series I used HP servers and the service profile model that UCS does is significantly better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Cisco UCS Series CIsco is much better than HPE. Easy to setup and manage Incentivized Helpful? CM Cédric MARIOT Infrastructure manager Chose Cisco UCS Series Centralized management with UCS Central Easy deployment, easy upgrades Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Cisco UCS Series Citrix presented a nice tale of scalability and simplicity of maintenance. While UCS with VMware is extremely dependable, our tiny cluster deployment fell far short of expectations. There was a centralized point of administration, but installing machines under their proprietary … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco UCS Series We choose this product over others on the market because it is simple to configure, and Cisco's help during the onboarding process is exceptional. Customers may choose from a variety of other products on the market. Also, the vendor-provided trainings facilitate the team's … Incentivized Helpful? Colin Moynihan Solutions Architect Chose Cisco UCS Series Ratified designs are key Incentivized Helpful? YS Yolonda Sands Network Admin Chose Cisco UCS Series Scalability was one factor in choosing Cisco UCS Series. We also have Dell servers, but for a different purpose than Voice over IP. Incentivized Helpful? HO Hector Ochoa Network Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series I have always said that something that characterizes Cisco is the reliability of its products, but even better than this is the excellent support it provides to its customers and partners. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series It was HPE Proliant's capacity to scale and manage its systems that marketed HPE Proliant. UCS with VMware was far more robust when we built a modest cluster in our environment. It's true that management could be done from a single place, but putting servers under their … Incentivized Helpful? Ayush Dhawan Technical Specialist Chose Cisco UCS Series It is easy to configure and the support provided by Cisco on onboarding is eminent which make customers to chose the this over other products available in the market . Also the trainings provided by the vendor makes teams to easily understand, adapt the technical environment … Incentivized Helpful? Pjeter Gjergjaj Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series Easier to integrate and to use after that. It gives a better feeling as a server and it is better in performance also it is more durable. Offers a variety of use cases and also it is a very scalable server. Offers a great redundancy (has already [been] integrated) and also … Helpful? Tim Lillis Sr. System Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series Nutanix sold a great story of scalability and ease of management. But when we deployed a small cluster in our environment it was nowhere near as robust as UCS with VMware. Yes, there was a central location for management, but the hoops you had to jump through when deploying … Incentivized Helpful? Chethan Chandra IT Technology Principal Consultant Chose Cisco UCS Series We started hosting for our SaaS offering using [Cisco] UCS [Series] and at some point, we wanted to scale up and out. This is where we looked for alternatives. This also gave rise to our multi-vendor strategy. Today we have more than 2,000 servers in our datacenters, a mix of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco UCS Series We have not considered any alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? JK Jeeva Kumar Information System Manager Chose Cisco UCS Series We do have a Cisco C service server, but that was never configured in a production environment as it was solely used for R&D purposes. Cisco UCS [Series] is very compact with easy to install. 8 Full and 16 half fits in 1 chassis and [it] is very easy to upgrade both vertically … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco UCS Series RAID support, hot-swappable drives, CIMC management of hardware, and ESXi support make it the first choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco UCS Series We also considered some of the Dell options, none of those produced what we needed. UCS met our business needs in ways that other companies and solutions could not compete. I do think other solutions have caught up but Cisco was ahead of its time when they brought this to … Incentivized Helpful? William Guertin Senior System Administrator Chose Cisco UCS Series I don't know how they all three stacks up cost-wise. I used the IBM BladeCenter and Oracle 6000 when I worked at Oracle. I find that the UCS is more intuitive and surprise its networking has a lot more functionality and flexibility than the competitors. They all in my opinion … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco UCS Series Due to the relationship with Cisco and as we needed to host Cisco virtual machines regarding the Voice over IP, we decided to go with Cisco UCS servers to have the one vendor support and powerful of integration between cisco devices together. Also when it comes with bundle it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco UCS Series I think that the Cisco UCS Series of servers probably compare fairly evenly with the HPE ProLiant DL series, as both will have similar compute resources in the same size package. The advantage of the Cisco UCS Series for us is that we wanted to use them for Cisco virtual … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to manage Pro High performance Pro Use of data
Top Cons	Minus Bit complicated Minus Operating system Minus Customer support

Best Alternatives
	Cisco UCS Series
Small Businesses	Dell PowerEdge R Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	HPE ProLiant DL Score 7.3 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Z Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cisco UCS Series
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (10 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco UCS Series
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Cisco UCS blades are very well suited if you want to have dense and easily managed environment that is flexible (server profiles). its perfect if you have a need for business critical applications that requires whole blade to run. in case of any hardware failure you can simply swap its profile with standby node and power your application server back up very quickly, not something you could do with a standard rackmount Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Cisco When used with VMWare, firmware changes cause minimal disruption. Simple system software updates using all-inclusive firmware bundles covering the individual parts. UCS, in contrast to other Cisco products, is stable and reliable, with relatively few hardware failures during its lengthy lifespan. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cisco Some issues with the operating system were present in Memory's memory for some time. A few DIMMS had to be replaced before the current firmware stabilized the problem Although some of the templating is a little difficult to understand, this is typical of most Cisco products Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cisco We are All satisfied with the value and Performance of the UCS servers Incentivized BB Benjamin Bubbers Systems Engineer Read full review
Usability	Cisco While Cisco's hardware is solid and long running, their software is usually the weak point. I will say that they are getting better with each release but if I had to find a problem with usability that would be it. Overall usability is good when you can work around software issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco Cisco TAC is simply unbeatable and that goes for Cisco UCS server support just as well as it does for Cisco CUCM software. TAC has a well-deserved, excellent reputation and I do not hesitate to call them or open a ticket online, because I always know that I will get the help that I need and get it quickly Incentivized Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco Easier to integrate and to use after that. It gives a better feeling as a server and it is better in performance also it is more durable. Offers a variety of use cases and also it is a very scalable server. Offers a great redundancy (has already [been] integrated) and also [gives] you easy access from terminal or GUI. Pjeter Gjergjaj Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco Life cycle of new hardware. We were able to refresh 40 existing servers with new ones in under a day When having to move chassis around, having to only move 4 cables instead of the 16 that would have been required for rack-mount servers Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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