A real centralized management and deployment
Updated September 12, 2022
A real centralized management and deployment
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series
At first we deployed UCS B-series into our Datacenter to host our production virtual machines. All is managed throw UCS Central. After some training and initial configuration, adding new blade take a couple of minutes. It has deeply decrease human action issues and administration time. This year we have deployed a new UCS Mini at a remote production site. Configuration was prepared before devices purchasing and so deployment was very fast and secured.
Pros
- Centralized configuration
- Blade interchangeability with service profiles
- Secured and centralized hardware drivers upgrades
- Secured changes like adding VLAN
Cons
- Need learning and training to create proper profiles
- Support is not automated: need to manually create cases
- First investment is heavy and need time for a return
- Blade and chassis add-on is cheaper than concurrency
- Flexibility allows to reassign resources depending of changing loads
Centralized management with UCS Central
Easy deployment, easy upgrades
Easy deployment, easy upgrades
Do you think Cisco UCS Series delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco UCS Series's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco UCS Series live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco UCS Series go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco UCS Series again?
Yes
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