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Cisco UCS Series

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What is Cisco UCS Series?

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,…

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Cisco UCS rocks

10 out of 10
February 08, 2023
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What is Cisco UCS Series?

Active data demands agile infrastructure built from ongoing innovation and delivery. So the vendor presents the Cisco UCS Series Storage Servers to deliver rapid scalability and performance, and to activate data and insights in real time. They state its modular architecture provides users the right-size infrastructure for the workload and operate with the efficiency and predictable TCO needed.

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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 streaming, and content distribution.

HPE ProLiant DL and Dell PowerEdge R are common alternatives for Cisco UCS Series.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Cisco UCS Series are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In hosting physical servers, we are able to use automation for self-service. A user can request a physical server through a UI, the UCS API/python SDK is used to automation the request. It will boot from SAN. This allows for quick maintenance, especially as we use private cloud/datacenter co-lo. This works very well. Where it is less appropriate is where hosted applications charge by the CPU/core, like Oracle, or smaller applications.
December 19, 2023

Cisco UCS Series review

Joacim Wicander | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco UCS Series servers can be used in any scenario as there are both blades (UCS-B and UCS-X) and rackmount servers (UCS-C).

For me, the best solution is with fabric interconnects because everything can be managed through the UCS-manager software running on the Fabric Interconnects or Intersight.

There are Cisco Validated Designs available for many different workloads on the servers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco UCS is perfect for VM and storage management within your data center and the support from Cisco is great as well. If you only need a couple of servers, then it might not be a good fit, but for most medium to large organizations it is a good fit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used UCS-B on central Datacenter and on main production sites for the more sensible workloads (ERP, Databases, VDI)
It is not suitable for Remote Office and Branch Office for costs reason.
It has been preferred to Hyperconverged systems to allow more flexibility.
It replace HPE Blades which are less easy to use and to monitor.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a long time, we experimented with Supermicro and relied on Citrix. There is no alternative to UCS because it is the only one that offers such a comprehensive set of features. Ability to control all aspects of operation, including hardware, software, and firmware, from a single location. In our perspective, Cisco was among the first to completely overhaul the standard server architecture. Even though there are several attractive new hyper-converged options on the market, we continue to upgrade our infrastructure using just UCS.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It works effectively in environments where physical infrastructure is still prevalent and when virtualization is implemented on a very simple level. This helps to simplify the total number of devices that are linked. Some customers are still apprehensive to make the switch, but the Cisco UCS Series can interact with their existing, legacy operating system.
June 13, 2022

Cisco UCS My Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These servers are an excellent option for large networks where several virtual servers can be mounted, as this saves space and energy. In addition to other services as mentioned above, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco CMX, Windows Servers, vWLC. All this with the help of VMware as Hypervisor. An example where it would not be a good option would be in a small network or a small office where only 1 or 2 servers are required. In this case, I think the cost-benefit ratio is not adequate.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco was a pioneer in redefining the traditional server paradigm, and it's the only one we've seen so far. When it comes to infrastructure upgrades, we're not tempted by the latest hyper-converged offerings. The HP Poliant and HP blades were our go-to weapons for years. However, nothing has come close to matching UCS's comprehensive offering. Network, computing, and storage management capabilities have not yet been beaten.
Ayush Dhawan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is suited well for the infrastructure where the presence of Physical infra is still dominant and virtualisation is though basic setup. This helps in simplying number of connected devices. Cisco UCS Series has the ability to integrate to traditional OS which is present with some clients which are still hesitant to migrate
Tim Lillis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We played with Nutantix and used HP blades for years. But nothing really has matched the complete package that is included with UCS. The ability to manage the network, compute, and storage, alongside the firmware in one place, has yet to [beat]. Cisco was one of the first to revolutionize the old school server model and has yet to beat in our opinion. Some of the new hyper-converged products look nice, but we keep sticking to UCS when upgrading our infrastructure.
Chethan Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Cisco] UCS [Series] for bare-metal database workloads & Xen hypervisors. It handles the smaller workloads, up to 1TB of memory, the failover is fast and reliable. The smaller app servers are never to be worried about. In general, works well for hosting 1-2 large-scale solutions. For scenarios where the solutions need a larger scale (more databases, larger database, multiple solutions, multiple tiers), the "blade" concept will not work. This is where you should consider the 4U or 8U servers, to consolidate workloads spread across multiple chassis and smaller blades. This may be expensive but is much easily maintainable.
October 25, 2021

Cisco UCS Series Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would definitely recommend evaluating Cisco UCS Series in your company. You pay a little bit higher price but you will receive a reliable, stable and manageable infrastructure. You could also choose Cisco offers advanced purchasing or leasing options.
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