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Cisco UCS Series Automation
January 08, 2024

Cisco UCS Series Automation

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
  • Cisco UCS X-Series Servers

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series

We use Cisco UCS Series blades for both virtual and physical servers. We have automation that builds physicals using boot from SAN.
  • Boot from SAN
  • Remove hardware maintenance
  • Easy changes to infrastructure without including many other teams: networking, storage, etc...
  • Maintaining a standardized environment
  • Ease of implementing IaC elements
  • With the new Intersight, service profile moves are not as easy
  • OS version inclusion. Limited number of OS
  • Speed to deploy, sometime service profiles take a long while to deploy
  • More status of what is going on behind the scenes especially via python SDK or API- ECC errors, what state the deploy is in
  • Physical servers deploy from about a day to less than 2 hours without the need to tie up people on the task.
Cisco UCS Series has allowed our times to deploy new physical servers to come down drastically, and has freed up people to do other work/trainings. It also has allowed our private cloud environment to be more mature, as we are more standardized, and remote maintenance for hardware is quicker and easier.
We were very satisfied. We have used C220s, and B200s for years. This year we went to the X-series. There were many hiccups with our transition to Intersight which was needed since we went to the x-series, but we got a lot of help from Cisco, and Intersight has been maturing rapidly. That is a true indication of how well we liked the solution.

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?

No

Would you buy Cisco UCS Series again?

Yes

In hosting physical servers, we are able to use automation for self-service. A user can request a physical server through a UI, the UCS API/python SDK is used to automation the request. It will boot from SAN. This allows for quick maintenance, especially as we use private cloud/datacenter co-lo. This works very well. Where it is less appropriate is where hosted applications charge by the CPU/core, like Oracle, or smaller applications.