Server management made simple
September 14, 2021

Server management made simple

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • UCS X-Series Servers

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Manager

We utilize a Cisco UCS Manager environment for the vast majority of our server infrastructure. We have multiple environments hosting several dozen VMware hosts, and we also utilize Cisco UCS Manager as a host environment for multiple Nutanix environments. Our environment contains a mix of blade servers and rack mount servers and hosts virtual machines for our entire campus community.

Pros

  • Centralized management and reporting on your hardware environment.
  • Stateless hardware making replacement of failed components extremely easy.
  • Reliable environment that rarely has problems.

Cons

  • Sometimes the web interface doesn't display the best in certain browsers.
  • Do not like a few aspects of the GUI - mainly cosmetic - that were done better in the java version.
  • A few things could be more intuitive - finding certain things that you don't use frequently for example.
  • Centralized monitoring and reporting on your servers
  • High availability and redundancy in your associated hardware
  • Stateless hardware - super easy to quickly replace failed hardware
  • Cisco UCS Manager makes management of a large number of servers (firmware updates, changes to networking, etc.) very easy
  • This consolidates management of servers for our datacenter and makes my job a lot easier.

Do you think Cisco UCS Manager delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco UCS Manager's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco UCS Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco UCS Manager go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco UCS Manager again?

Yes

It [Cisco UCS Manager] is extremely well suited to large virtual infrastructure environments with resource dense blades. This solution is also great if you want to consolidate a large number of servers (if they are servers that need to stay physical, but can fit in the profile of a blade) - this would reduce data center space utilization as well as power and cooling. Cisco UCS Manager is also great if you're looking for centralized management of a larger number of servers. This would not be a great solution if you have a very small shop - it's not cheap and probably wouldn't give you a ROI if you only have a couple dozen servers total. I'd say it would be overkill for small shops, but if you have the money and don't care, you'll still like it.

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