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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS Series
We have deployed Cisco UCS in King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We use both UCS B-Series blade servers and UCS C-Series rack servers to support a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, enterprise applications (Access Control, CCTV, SQL Server, Oracle, other airport applications). UCS Manager plays a critical role in centrally managing server profiles, firmware updates, and hardware policies, which significantly reduces our administrative overhead. 1- easy to scale 2-easy to manage 3-Save Rack space and power and cooling requirements. Business Use Case: Supporting airport application/Staff/guest users in multiple datacenters. Virtualization, along with vCenter, makes all workloads easy to manage from a single location . One of the current issues we are facing is the VMware licensing, which makes it a more expensive solution.
Pros
- Save rack space, cooling, and power requirements.
- Easy to scale and expand.
- Efficiency is unmatchable.
- High availability.
- High Throughput.
Cons
- More intelligent alerting for environments not fully integrated with Intersight or third-party monitoring tools.
- 3rd party plugin support.
- Interoperability with non-Cisco networking, storage orchestration tools.
- Positive: ROI: Operational Cost Reduction by cutting Rack Space, power, and cooling requirements.
- Positive: ROI: Business Value: 33 percent data center rack space reduction.
- Positive: Business continuity: 30 to 40 percent cut in unplanned downtime.
- Negative: External Expenditures, such as smartness and technical resources, are expensive.
UCS integrates with VMware vSphere while adding hardware automation and unified fabric. Why UCS?
Cisco UCS offers better infrastructure abstraction and automation via UCS Manager and Intersight. The integration of compute and fabric in a single system reduced configuration time and enabled faster troubleshooting. We selected Cisco UCS because it aligns with our long-term strategy, offering infrastructure, simplified lifecycle management, automated scaling, and reduced operational complexity. Additionally, we secured a significant discount from Cisco due to our use of another Cisco solution.
Cisco UCS offers better infrastructure abstraction and automation via UCS Manager and Intersight. The integration of compute and fabric in a single system reduced configuration time and enabled faster troubleshooting. We selected Cisco UCS because it aligns with our long-term strategy, offering infrastructure, simplified lifecycle management, automated scaling, and reduced operational complexity. Additionally, we secured a significant discount from Cisco due to our use of another Cisco solution.
Cisco UCS transformed infrastructure. It helped us become more responsive, resilient, and efficient, directly supporting faster business outcomes . 1-Higher uptime, better SLA compliance. 2-Accelerated project timelines. 3-Reduce risk : Cross-functional tasks that used to require multiple teams and hand-offs now happen in a fraction of the time.
Yes, our organization is highly satisfied with the configuration experience of the Cisco UCS Series, and it was a major factor in our decision. 1-What used to be a 4-hour, 6-hour manual configuration per server is now a 10-minute template assignment. 2-We no longer had to log into multiple servers; everything was configured from a centralized GUI or CLI.. 3-With UCS Fabric, we handled both compute and networking policies in one place, reducing complexity and delays.
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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