Cisco UCS Series Review
June 16, 2025

Cisco UCS Series Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Modules Used

  • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series

We primarily use Cisco UCS Series B 200 with M5 blades to run our VMware environment. ESXi is installed on each blade and managed via vCenter. Cisco UCS Series solves a need of condensing compute in the rack and reducing overall heat, power and space from traditional servers. We use Cisco UCS Series at both of our datacenters and will continue to replace the blades in our chassis until it EOLs.

Pros

  • Network Profiles
  • Updates
  • KVM
  • Dashboard
  • Reliability

Cons

  • Setup
  • Alerts
  • Updates
  • Uptime
  • Power Savings
  • Cost Savings
  • Management
Cisco UCS Series has been a great change for our organization and we've been using it for many years now and it would be hard to go back to the previous way of handling servers. Highly recommend for our size organization to use blades, as it is easily scalable.
Yes, we are very satisfied with the configuration of Cisco UCS Series. Once set up, it requires very little to change for day to day use. The notifications are easy to view and online KBs can help identify any issues.

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

Cisco UCS Series offers a reliable and easy to manage system. It is almost set and forget for organizations and requires very little changes. Setup and troubleshooting can be confusing with profiles, but can be addressed with time learning the product hands on. Once familiar, everything is much easier. I would recommend the product for any size organization as scalability is very easy with the chassis supporting multiple blades and the fabric interconnects being able to be easily expanded on as well.

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