UCS Series Review
Updated March 13, 2025
UCS Series Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Cisco UCS X-Series Servers
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series
In our organization our main infrastructure ,the computer relies on Cisco UCS Series, like the servers, services, applications, databases, and desktop virtualization for users.
Pros
- Particularly well management, ease of use and power.
Cons
- Everything seemed fine on UCS side. Maybe diversity of configurations with the GPUs, maybe.
- I'm going to start with the negative impact. Maybe in order to have the ease of use, you have to get some time to prepare correctly and to correctly to design the correct design. But now that you've done this time, you don't have to take that to get back to this configuration. You are all free. And this is the positive side, it's that when everything is prepared correctly, everything is smooth. So the use of the profiles, the connection of new servers, the decommissioning and the adding of new servers, the modification of configuration, everything is more easy to use and the less we interrupt user access to our service, the more the hospital is working fine and we can achieve a better support to our end users. And then to the patients.
The scalability with the use of adding more server chassis and profiling them to be quickly deployable and manageable on one website. The communication that are linked to each servers and with the Cisco UCS Series. In chassis particularly, it's more convenient because we have less wires and less port to connect. So it's ease of use. Again, the Cisco UCS Series service profile and the chassis profile. That's awesome to use for scalability and to deploy new servers.
The CPU line and performance line of the UCS, particularly the UCSX, last series of six and seven generation are very powerful with Intel and a MD, we did not try out a MD solution, but we are thinking about to improve our VDI capability for end users to make faster desktop environments and use space for our users.
Yes, totally. Because we can easily put some Austin maintenance. We have the information and monitoring solutions that are central in Cisco Intersight, our former UCS manager. So yes, we use all the solutions from UCS series and it's helpful for us in healthcare particularly because we do not have a lot of time to deal with maintenance and when there is maintenance there is an impact on end users and our end users are doctors, are nurses and other healthcare people. And at the end this is everyone that's getting healthcare. So if we can, we have to support all the doctors and nurses for the ease of work we have to make them a comfortable use of the new technologies, especially with Cisco UCS Series For now, Cisco UCS Series made us very reliable and very comfortable use and avoided us a lot of troubles.
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
Using Cisco UCS Series
8 - System administrators, engineers, storage administrators, network engineers
2 - Need to be comfortable with profiles, network settings, storage capabilities and global system configurations
- Compute infrastructure
- Chassis integration
- Virtualization/hypervisor management
- Storage connection (SAN; vSAN)
- Compliance
- Ease of new deployments/reconfiguration
- Providing infrastructure to other hospitals
- AI infrastructure
- Modernization
Evaluating Cisco UCS Series and Competitors
Yes - Dell R710, Bull Bullions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Ease of use : It has to be easy to configure, and review or audit configuration in an easy way to prove that our infrastructure is capable and performs well
We will add some disaster recovery analysis (POC) and functionalities
Cisco UCS Series Implementation
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
Orange
Yes - Physical installation of chassis, Fabric Interconnects and Blades, then profiles and service templates, then OS installation
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation - Proving documentation and methods are on pair.
- Intersight needs connexion to internet
Cisco UCS Series Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Yes, because as a Public Healthcare regional major hospital, we have to be sure we can count on our providers to be helped quickly when needed and the medical team needs a reliable infrastructure in order to treat patients correctly, and in a secure way.
When upgrading our firmwares , support guided us, and helped us.
Using Cisco UCS Series
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Cloning templates
- Installing new hardware
- configuring networks and vlan
- installing ESXi
- Naming convention
Upgrading Cisco UCS Series
Yes - Everything went smooth after putting Blades in maintenance mode, when doing the Firmware Upgrades
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