CIsco UCS Manager at a glance
February 22, 2022
CIsco UCS Manager at a glance
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- UCS X-Series Servers
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Manager
We use Cisco UCS Manager to manage our blade server/storage systems. With UCS Manager we have been able to have a quick all in one view of all of our server and storage systems. We can provision and decommission systems through the UCS Manager as well as increase the capacity of our systems.
- Server management
- Storage management
- out of band management
- capacity planning
- It has a lot of pieces to it that can easily overwhelm someone who is not in there all the time using it.
- adding extra vlans is not exactly a walk in the park
- You can manage blade and rack mount servers efficiently from a single pane of glass
- quickly track issues and problems in your server infrastructure
- contains a centralized resource inventory
- The positive is I was able to consolidate my small server infrastructure from 3 racks to one rack giving me space back and much power savings
- The negative would be it could feel a little daunting to manage as there are many tabs and pieces to the interface.
Cisco UCS Manager seemed like the right fit since all of our networking gear is Cisco already. It allowed us to consolidate our rack-mounted servers and much cabling into a couple of blade chassis. Cisco UCS Manager stacks up well against any competitor and it is great for larger environments.
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?
No