Cisco UCS Manager vs HPE OneView

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a data center and use the Cisco UCS Blade platform with SAN storage, then UCS manager is the right tool for you. Managing one or a few host servers with UCS manager is pretty easy. You can see pretty quick what is going on with your servers. If you need to configure the fabric interconnects, you pretty much need to use UCS manager to do it. I find that it meets the needs for almost everything we do with the UCS C and B servers. If you have hyper flex servers from Cisco, then you would not want to use UCS manger. If you are not using Cisco servers you may not be able to use UCS manager.

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Manager in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 501-1000 employees

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HPE Oneview has come along way. When they first put it out it was next to useless. Over the years and versions, they listened to feedback and have made OneView into a truly enterprise-level robust management product. It is now a far better product than the old C7000 Blade OAs, and HP SIM. It makes management of hardware easy and makes much of the maintenance easier and safer than before. For the storage side it does a great job and is intuitive to use, but the very versatility of how you can do things can lead to issues if multiple engineers do things differently.

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Technician in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

Service Templates: Provision new hardware using templates in the matter of minutes.
Firmware updates: Modifying the FW level on a template will kick off an FW upgrade on all attached equipment.
Consolidated Views: See all equipment in a single view.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Banking Company, 201-500 employees

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It is software-defined automation which helps you replicate the same configuration of HPE on other servers
Provides possible solutions to the alert which is very helpful while fixing the issue
A single click and interactive user interface

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Nishant Arora

ICT Specialist

HatchConstruction, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

UCSM is known for its bugs, especially during code upgrades.
Similar options can be set in a variety of places with varying effects.

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Tom Erdman

Network Systems Administrator

Johnson County LibraryLibraries, 201-500 employees

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Adding in the functionality to control multiple devices like the 3PAR san or Nimble san.

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ken smithson

Sr Solutions Architect

Scientific GamesEntertainment, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco UCS Manager 9.0

Based on 4 answers

Cisco UCSM Support has been very quick to reply and address our concerns, issues, and questions. We have found that Cisco's documentation is clear and concise and fairly easy to find. With Cisco support's help, we are able to quickly and safely meet the demands of our end-users, consistently.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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HPE OneView 9.3

Based on 3 answers

Support and training when we implemented OneView were excellent. We haven't required any additional support since we put it in and configured it for our systems. The OneView systems have been stable through updates and HPE documentation is excellent.

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Technician in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We were a IBM Blade Center shop. IBM was easier to manage. However, it was not as all inclusive. The IBM served us well, but when we started pricing out options Cisco came in a little less expensive on the current promotion they were running. The Cisco UCS has proven to be more stable and reliable, as well.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Our infrastructure is all HP and it is always nice to use the OEM tools in order to get the best optimized results.

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Nishant Arora

ICT Specialist

HatchConstruction, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We were able to achieve a positive ROI on the system within 18 months. This might be unique to our situation. Priced against buying traditional servers and fabrics it would stack up favorably.
The ability to easily expand our infrastructure with blades is a strength. The profiles allow us to add a new server which is configured and deployed in a much shorter amount of time than traditional server infrastructure.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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No impact one way or the other for us.

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ken smithson

Sr Solutions Architect

Scientific GamesEntertainment, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No