Cisco UCS Series Review.
June 16, 2025
Cisco UCS Series Review.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series
We use it to provide virtual server environments, so it's a hypervisor for all of our virtual servers.
Pros
- I guess it gives us the capability and flexibility to grow as we need compute and memory. It allows us to easily do that and add resources. I think that's about it. I mean, it does give us the ability to add GPU capabilities if we want to in the future. And it is basically, I would say it's unified so we can pull whatever services we want on it, which is helpful. That's all. I don't know.
Cons
- I can't think of any actually. It provides everything that we need to do. I've been using Cisco's equipment for 15 years and it's very rarely has any hardware related issues, so it's been doing very well. I think maybe their API and management could be easier as far as code, but I think it's actually there too. It might be an easier interface to do it.
- I would say from positive, it's allowed central management of the devices and basically the profile capabilities is something that you would have not had in the past, so it allows fewer people to manage a lot more things a lot quicker.
Well, I'm primarily our data center services compute guy, so I've used all of the UCS primarily. I've used IBM Data Blade Center and some of that in the past and Dell, but really we've been primarily UCS for the last 12 to 15 years. So exclusively. All of the above. I mean, basically hands down, the central management for UCS is night and day difference between the others. And I mean the reason we went with UCS was we were able to at a point where we were actually going to expand our data center footprint in a colo, we were actually to compress our data center going to UCS and reduce by probably 60%. So that's the reason we went for it originally. As far as its flexibility and its capabilities is hands down better than any other compute environment out there.
It's allowed, I would say I manage all of our data center where right now I can manage in excess of 2000 VMs and 150 hypervisors pretty much by myself. Where in the past I would probably be five to six fts to do that.
Yes, very much so. We're working in that right now, actually. So I mean, we've gone to intersite Cloud managed, we've used Intersite for probably the last seven years, but have used UCS manager internally to manage our domains. And now within the last two years we've moved to, and Xer is Intersite managed only. And it's been phenomenal. I mean, we've been able to basically automate a lot more of our environment much quicker than what we've been able to do in the past.
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
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