Cisco UCS X-Series on the go
Updated November 27, 2025

Cisco UCS X-Series on the go

Philipp Penoliar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco UCS X-Series

We use Cisco UCS X-Series as a refresh to enterprise servers. It solves the applications need on the latest technology available for security, compliance. The scope is to refresh the physical server to a modular server and virtualize all incoming application host. Also with the intersight, provide a single management for all ther servers and can be managed in the cloud.

Pros

  • Modular server
  • Unified management
  • Adaptibilty to customer requirement
  • cloud management access

Cons

  • Config on the hardware specification of each server. E.g. bios, cpu power etc.
  • FI edit of configuration can't be done
  • Minimum # of psu
  • Reduced space requirements
  • Reduced power requirements
  • Reduced and better cooling/heating considerations inside the datacenter
  • less management and control of total number of equipments
  • reduced config complexity
Comparing to previous models of the UCS series of Cisco like the B and C series, Cisco UCS X-Series is the combination of the two, having the best of both devices. And having the intersight, that can managed the whole server in a cloud environment. Modularity from b series and storage from c series is what best the Cisco UCS X-Series have. I also used Cisco Hyperflex and UCS X is more like a more compact hardware for a hyperconverged infrastructure.
With the simplicity of Cisco UCS X-Series, it brings on the organization the the ease when it comes to deployment and management of the infrastructure. Having lesser time on finding the configuration to scale and manage servers and application the organization have and which saves cost on the operational expenses of the organization. also, UCS X being one of the latest technology offering today, supports the lates CPUs that give more power and performance which needed with the latest applications and softwares that is used in the industry.
Cisco intersight is the cloud management solution of cisco for their data center portfolio. Having Cisco UCS X-Series managed by the cisco intersight simplifies the tasks on deployment and operations in the data center. Enables integration to platforms like ansible and terraform for automation and having all your managed servers across your multiple sites in a single dashboard. with this cloud management platform, it enables the customers to access and managed all Cisco Servers accross each data center globally.
Cisco UCS X-Series uses the latest data center technology like cpus, ssd, memory, and gpu to provide a high speed processing that modern applications needs. Cisco UCS X-Series modularity helps us to scale out easily by just adding nodes on the UCS x chassis. And with the Cisco intersight we can create templates to configure our servers. Cisco UCS X supports vertical and horizontal scaling depending on what the organization needs and support automation and use if templates to ease the task needed for expanding the infrastructure.

Do you think Cisco UCS X-Series delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco UCS X-Series's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco UCS X-Series live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco UCS X-Series go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco UCS X-Series again?

Yes

HashiCorp Terraform, VMware vSphere, Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
Cisco UCS X-Series is the modern server today. It provides the adaptability and modularity of a server in the modern data center era. Replacing your traditional server, converting into a virtualized environment, integrating a storage servers to build a converged infrastructure is some of the well suited scenarios that Cisco UCS X-Series can be used. It could be less appropriate to small businesses or companies with small requirement of hardware resources since you need the whole chassis whether you need single server.

Using Cisco UCS X-Series

2 - We have been deploying UCS X to provide customers demand for a modern servers to run their applications. They require most of the softwares they used in their business to run in a hardware that can give the performance that they need and ensure that services of their application will run continuously.
  • Virtual Environment
  • Application Server
  • Database and Storage
  • modular design
  • cloud management
  • flexibility to address modern IT needs
  • AI
  • Cloud-Native and Containerized Workloads
  • Machine Learning

Using Cisco UCS X-Series

Cisco UCS X is designed to have a simplified management especially using Cisco Intersight. Having a single pane of glass GUI platform to manage every servers on your chassis across multiple data center globally. The modularity allows users to easily incorporate future technologies (like new compute nodes or I/O modules) to adapt to changing workload needs, preserving the initial investment and reducing total cost of ownership. The system is highly flexible, supporting a wide range of workloads including traditional enterprise applications.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
  • infrastructure management
  • provisioning and deployment
  • replacement of defective hardwares
  • creating server templates
  • integration to legacy devices
  • remote management if no intersight

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