Cisco UCS Series Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have deployed Cisco UCS in King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We use both UCS B-Series blade servers and UCS C-Series rack servers to support a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, enterprise applications (Access Control, CCTV, SQL Server, Oracle, other airport applications). UCS Manager plays a critical role in centrally managing server profiles, firmware updates, and hardware policies, which significantly reduces our administrative overhead. 1- easy to scale 2-easy to manage 3-Save Rack space and power and cooling requirements. Business Use Case: Supporting airport application/Staff/guest users in multiple datacenters. Virtualization, along with vCenter, makes all workloads easy to manage from a single location . One of the current issues we are facing is the VMware licensing, which makes it a more expensive solution.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco UCS Series is well suited for Enterprise data centers, offering centralized management of server profiles and policies. 2-Enterprise data center, wherein rack space, cooling, and power are a challenge. 3- Mission-critical application, Cisco UCS Series is well suited, Cisco UCS Series is less appropriate in the following situations: 1. Small SMB (high upfront cost and complexity may be overkill). 2. Expensive solution for a small business. Most cost-effective to use traditional rack servers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco UCS is the backbone of compute architecture at our organization, it is a single platform that is used extensively for all things Compute, It the standard that is used to deploy any workload or project that requires CPU, memory, hard-drive and high speed processing. We deploy Cisco UCS in both chassis with b-series blades as well as stand-alone c-series servers. These provide converged infrastructure due to unique architecture.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Cisco UCS is well suited for workloads small or large. Some of the high end blades and rack servers have plenty of punch and power to be deployed for high demand workloads including HPC (high performance computing). </div><div>

</div><div>Rack servers are well suited for deploying data base work loads. While chassis solution is well suited for quickly adding and replacing blades within chassis, and for configuring various service profiles based of type of work load and requirements. </div>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to provide virtual server environments, so it's a hypervisor for all of our virtual servers.

Likelihood to Recommend

I can't think of any. I mean, basically we have gone from a HyperFlex environment, which we don't need anymore. This allows us to get around the need for a hyper-converged environment.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco UCS Series was a strong contender for the next generation computing upgrade. The current platform is end of life and out of support. A vendor and product was needed that would address the lifecycle issues that are typical with computing platforms.

Likelihood to Recommend

Complete turnkey solutions for customers and programs. Easily can recommend a flexpod that fits the workload requirements,

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several Cisco UCS Series clusters in out environment. Dev, test, and mutiple production clusters in our primary data center. We replicated production to a secondary site for redundancy. We like to simplified cabling and the integration of the fabric interconnects to network and san connectivity. Easy to set up and upgrade.

Likelihood to Recommend

Production work loads, easy to install and scale

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use Cisco UCS Series B 200 with M5 blades to run our VMware environment. ESXi is installed on each blade and managed via vCenter. Cisco UCS Series solves a need of condensing compute in the rack and reducing overall heat, power and space from traditional servers. We use Cisco UCS Series at both of our datacenters and will continue to replace the blades in our chassis until it EOLs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco UCS Series offers a reliable and easy to manage system. It is almost set and forget for organizations and requires very little changes. Setup and troubleshooting can be confusing with profiles, but can be addressed with time learning the product hands on. Once familiar, everything is much easier. I would recommend the product for any size organization as scalability is very easy with the chassis supporting multiple blades and the fabric interconnects being able to be easily expanded on as well.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco UCS Series for virtualization. Cisco UCS Series condenses the number of servers requred to run our environment

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend Cisco UCS Series to a colleague because of virtualization. In my experience, the Ease of configuraation to specific environment

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco UCS Series for the Virtual Computing platform

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to tell a colleague that with Cisco UCS Series we are able to able too flexibility address our customers needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, VMWare hosts is the main use case. We have 850 VMs running on three UCS-x chasiss.

Some call mamager. Some video servers. Cisco UCS Series is the bulk of our datacenter compute.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend Cisco UCS Series to a colleague because, in my opinion, Cisco UCS Series is best in class

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, Cisco UCS Series helps us scale to support our Business units. We build applications in house and it requires multiple resources.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to tell a colleague that Cisco UCS Series helps us build our infrastructure. Cisco UCS Series also allows us to expand our footprint.