Item: Cisco UCS Series
Rating: 10
Author: John Schneider

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a series of virtual servers. We are running an ESXI VMware system on the products right now.

Pros and Cons

Pros

What it does is let me build an ESXI server. It's really easy to build one. The management system allows me to connect to it and get it set up really easily. It puts it into an IP pool plus it allows it to be more centralized in what I'm doing.

Cons

I think it is the actual alerting that I have. It could be improved by giving me a little better setup of what actually is going on when I do have an issue and then tac. They're a little slow at helping us a lot of times.

Return on Investment

Positive, like I said before, the centralized, the resource use allowing us to do multiple. We have like 150 virtual servers running on the environment, so that's the positive. Negative, I don't really have any just cost.

Alternatives Considered

What I like about it is I can connect them to together in the same management setup for maintenance and different stuff I need to do with them.

It allows us to have multiple servers as virtual servers in our ESXI Vmware environment in one spot. It also allows us to use our grid environment for our different classes. AutoCAD and different high, high use classes to access the Nvidia card that's in the three standalone UCS computer.

Configuration

Yes, they are

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a central located server or server setup, less resources, it takes up maybe a third of a rack, maybe a fourth of a rack. Not too bad for one chassis, less suited if you don't have quarter of a rack to put it in. Some smaller setups won't need it if you don't need multiple servers as well.

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Cisco UCS Series Review