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Cisco UCS Manager

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What is Cisco UCS Manager?

Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection.

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What users are saying about Cisco UCS Manager.
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UCS

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

No issue but this is great management tool for UCS

Pros

  • Monitoring Blade Servers
  • Template assignment for consistency of the configuration
  • Logical codes / error for troubleshooting

Cons

  • Deployment Analysis
  • Recommendations relevant customer use

Return on Investment

  • The system allows for easy scalability to meet growing business needs
  • Certain maintenance tasks, like acknowledging a chassis, can cause temporary downtime, affecting network and SAN traffic

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HPE OneView

Other Software Used

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance

Cisco live 2024

Incentivized
Mauro Bettati
It specialist in Finance and Accounting at Cedacri (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Manage data center environment, audit system, check problem, update system, verify compatibility. Uniform system, introduce general system.

Pros

  • Manage system
  • Collect information
  • Maintenance the system

Cons

  • Interact with other system

Return on Investment

  • Good impact reducing unman activity

Cisco UCS Manager

Incentivized
Atif RaeesView profile
Cloud Network Architect in Engineering at Etisalat (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco UCS Managers to manage 8 seprate UCS FI domains distributed across two DCs. UCS manager provid us capabilty to manage all our B seres and Cseries server from single pane of glass. service profile are the major benifits of UCSM helping us ensure consistent policies within the system for a given service or application.

Pros

  • stateless Computing
  • Profile Teamplates
  • Firmware provisioning
  • Call Home support

Cons

  • there should be a option to check hardware and driver compaitability check and advisor

Most Important Features

  • Service Profiles
  • Firemware management
  • Storage profiles
  • Stateless computing

Return on Investment

  • UCSM enableds us ensure impact free Infrastures coputing environment
  • UCSM helps us fully leverage the hardware by re-purposing it in our DCs

Other Software Used

ServiceNow IT Asset Management, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware NSX

Cisco UCS is the ideal for scale

Incentivized
Chance Barnett
Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Stewart Title (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco UCS to run ESXi hosts for our vSphere environment. UCS enables us to easily deploy and manage ESXi en masse while keeping configurations consistent.

Pros

  • Managing unique BIOS configurations
  • Managing unique storage configurations
  • Deploy blade servers en masse

Cons

  • The XML API needs a Terraform Provider developed and managed by Cisco

Most Important Features

  • Being able to centrally define and apply policy

Return on Investment

  • Cisco UCS has helped us meet our infrastructure availability goals

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

ucs benefits

Incentivized
mehboob elahi
network support engineer in Information Technology at ibm (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we provide multivendor support to lots of customers and i provide troubleshooting assistance to these customer

Pros

  • good to manage lots of domains etc
  • clean view of the all the servers and components
  • detailed logs view etc

Cons

  • logs are hard to navigate

Most Important Features

  • detailed overview of the servers

Return on Investment

  • positive

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Nexus Series Switches

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