Cisco UCS X-Series vs. IBM LinuxONE

Cisco UCS X-Series

Cisco UCS X-Series

41 Reviews and Ratings

IBM LinuxONE

IBM LinuxONE

36 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco UCS X-Series	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco UCS X-Series is a modular system designed for adaptability to simplify IT processes and speed innovation. The system provides users with the right-size infrastructure for the workload and enables operations with the efficiency and predictable TCO needed.	N/A
IBM LinuxONE	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.	N/A

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Cisco UCS X-Series

IBM LinuxONE

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Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Considered Both Products	Cisco UCS X-Series Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series In our opinion, Cisco UCS X-Series provides better flexibility and management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco Intersight Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Robust SaaS based mgmt. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Better performance and scalability, with a broader solution integration and many validated designs for VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, Bermital, and many other solution providers. I strongly suggest it for those who would like a long-term solution that is reliable and well-suited, as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco MDS Multilayer Fabric Switches Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Intersight is so much better. UCP only comes with HPE servers. So there is a limiting factor in the Cisco UCS X-Series advantages Incentivized Helpful? RY Rajiv Yadav Principal Architect Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Incentivized Helpful? ME Matt English systems manager Chose Cisco UCS X-Series compared with traditional rack servers, Cisco UCS X-Series provides better lifecycle consistency and easier standardization across computer nodes. compared with older UCS it offers a more modern design with better adaptability for future compute. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series The expected long life-cycle will help in limiting complete replacement when a server technology refresh is required Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series We decided to go with the UCS X-Series as it is easy to integrate. The engineers are familiar with it. The Partner network is good and we have good external engineers to help us with problems and integration questions. It is a flexible solution that can help us fulfill the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series UCS-x if truly template driven Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series With the standard UCS series starting to be retired, the Cisco UCS X-Series was the logical replacement to stay in the Cisco portfolio. Incentivized Helpful? SP Stephen Parker Systems Engineer Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000) Incentivized Helpful? Philipp Penoliar SE Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Comparing to previous models of the UCS series of Cisco like the B and C series, Cisco UCS X-Series is the combination of the two, having the best of both devices. And having the intersight, that can managed the whole server in a cloud environment. Modularity from b series and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series we originally used IBM bladecenters, then migrated to Cisco UCS. Now moving to UCS x-series using intersight managed mode. We never used UCS Central or UCS Director. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Better management of the architecture made and better performance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco UCSX is better for me because it is easy to deploy the configuration when u creating the service profile and it is to navigate than using the old UCSM, it is also better for gathering the create ticket for cases and also we notify the vulnerability across the network and … Incentivized Helpful? BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Dell PowerEdge R Incentivized Helpful? ND Nicholas Diesel Solutions Architect Chose Cisco UCS X-Series There are good use cases for both technologies, and each will have its place, UCS X-Series is good when looking at additional or external Storage solutions, and scalable computing performance in a compact form factor. Cisco HX is good for incorporating Compute and Storage in … Incentivized Helpful? Jessica Hull Database Administrator Chose Cisco UCS X-Series I have not worked with similar product in our company though we have been satisfied by great services offered by Cisco UCS X-series. It has modern applications that have equips our applications with technological power to work on enterprise workloads. The cloud operated … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM LinuxONE Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM LinuxONE LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics. Incentivized Helpful? ANDRE PARSAD Vice President,Internet Services Chose IBM LinuxONE The backing of IBM and its customer staff and expertise was very distinct vs competitors Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Small Businesses	Dell PowerEdge Score 7.8 out of 10	Dell PowerEdge Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	HPE ProLiant DL Score 8.7 out of 10	HPE ProLiant DL Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Z Score 9.4 out of 10	IBM Z Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	I have experienced great services from this platform in both cloud and on-premise. It has streamlined technology in all our cloud servers providing operational centre for any kind of data. It has enhanced effective networking program that controls workflows in the entire organization. The modular system gives predictive insights that helps us to prepare for future and avoid any risks that can lead to drawback. Incentivized Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review	IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Deploy LLM (large language model) for Inference is done well in Cisco UCS X-Series Deploy LLM for RAG (retrieval augmented generation) is done well in Cisco UCS X-Series Deploy LLM for AI Agents is done well in Cisco UCS X-Series Deploy LLM for Agentic AI (artificial intelligence) is done well in Cisco UCS X-Series Deploy LLM for Training is done well in Cisco UCS X-Series Incentivized RY Rajiv Yadav Principal Architect Read full review	Great security, if you configure things correctly Performance per instance is above average if you compare to commodity x86 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	I think there is room for improvement in Cisco UCS X-Series to be More user friendly In my experience, the Configuration details in Cisco UCS X-Series have room for improvement In my opinion, Policy has room for improvement in Cisco UCS X-Series I think Security has room for improvement in Cisco UCS X-Series Incentivized EK Elvis Kwaibiah Network System Engineer Read full review	Deploying of the IBM LinuxONE is not easy to new users. Powerful machine is required. To generate quality services requires an experienced user. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Usability	Cisco UCS X is designed to have a simplified management especially using Cisco Intersight. Having a single pane of glass GUI platform to manage every servers on your chassis across multiple data center globally. The modularity allows users to easily incorporate future technologies (like new compute nodes or I/O modules) to adapt to changing workload needs, preserving the initial investment and reducing total cost of ownership. The system is highly flexible, supporting a wide range of workloads including traditional enterprise applications. Incentivized Philipp Penoliar SE Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Better performance and scalability, with a broader solution integration and many validated designs for VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, Bermital, and many other solution providers. I strongly suggest it for those who would like a long-term solution that is reliable and well-suited, as it may continue to be supported for more than 8 years. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The backing of IBM and its customer staff and expertise was very distinct vs competitors Incentivized ANDRE PARSAD Vice President,Internet Services Read full review
Return on Investment	Good long term investment Providing the option to upgrade to better blades later in the process CAPEX is quite high for initial costs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No downtime since we deployed IBM LinuxONE Incentivized MA Mehdi Ayouch CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Read full review
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