#1 most frequent
United States of America
63.5%122 installations of 192
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Cisco UCS Manager
#2 most frequent
India
6.3%12 installations of 192
#3 most frequent
France
5.7%11 installations of 192
UCS
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
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
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
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
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
