TrustRadius Insights for Cisco UCS Manager are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Centralized Management Capability: Users have praised the system for its centralized management capability, allowing them to efficiently manage all UCS servers from a single point. This feature has been highlighted by many reviewers as a significant advantage for simplifying tasks and streamlining operations.
User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers appreciate the simple and intuitive user interface of the system, providing a clean view of all servers and components. Many users have pointed out that this simplicity enhances efficient system management and contributes to a positive user experience.
Robust Security Measures: Customers have commended the system for its strong security measures and access management features for IT administrators, ensuring a secure environment for server administration. The emphasis on security has been noted by several reviewers as a crucial aspect of the system's overall functionality.
I use Cisco UCS Manager to manage my company's Cisco UCS Server. The servers are part of a large infrastructure, and a private cloud offers the process power that my company needs.
Pros
Manage all my UCS server form one point
Simple interfaces
Good security and access management for it administrators
Cons
More integration with Cisco ACI
More support for management of Cisco UCS X Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Easy deployment of work scenarios and good management of the integration of network.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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
Likelihood to Recommend
UCSM is the major component to deliver stateless computing which is very essential for Cloud DCs. it gives us Infrastructure automation.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco UCS is very well positioned for large-scale enterprise and/or provider environments. Cisco UCS is not ideal for small business.
Cisco UCS Manager is utilized in large enterprise environment, supporting over 20,000 devices and users in public school system.
Pros
Provide necessary IP Telephony features and functionality for employees.
Relatively short support staff learning curve.
SRST works great.
Jabber voice quality needs improvement.
Cons
Automated provisioning need work.
More intuitive UI for new users.
More integration with third party collaboration tools.
Likelihood to Recommend
Implemented Cisco UCS over 15 years ago. It serves well in large school environment. We have devices in every room. Implementing E911 soon. The ROI in smaller school environments might not be optimal.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We are using UCS Manager to manage our one of the biggest Virtualization workloads. Private could and VDI workloads.
It helps save precious datacenter space. Easy to configure, use and troubleshoot. Server management approach using server profiles saves a lot of time configuring and managing servers. Also server hardware maintenance is very flexible and easy.
Pros
Server profiles
Footprint
Flexibility
Cons
Navigation system
Interface
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have really thigh datacenter space where every inch matters Cisco UCS manager would be one of the perfect solutions to apply.
Server profiles are very easy and time friendly option to apply settings for multiple blade servers. Easy to setup and manage.
If you have very fast changing and demanding workloads blade option could lack the vertical server scale option.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Cisco UCS Manager is one of the core technology in our infrastructure, we have 2 standalone Cisco UCS Server and also 3 UCS Hyperflex server, all of which are managed from UCS manager. UCS is our monitoring platform for Hardware issues and maintenance process. With UCS we have unified all our server platform.
Pros
UCS Server provisioning
Hardware monitoring
Monitoring topology
Cons
More documentation and tutorials on how to do for example ISCSI
A native automatic alert system for hardware issues
Hardening for Web console and Web GUI
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco UCS Manager is well suited for big infrastructures and environments where you need an scale solution, so you need to expand you server farm, this automation tools is for you. It doesn't mean that there's no other solutions for little or mid scale data centers, but this solution is not for you, because all tools it has would be overwhelmed.