Centralized Management Capability: Users have praised the system for its centralized management capability, allowing them to efficiently manage all UCS servers from a single point. This feature has been highlighted by many reviewers as a significant advantage for simplifying tasks and streamlining operations.
User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers appreciate the simple and intuitive user interface of the system, providing a clean view of all servers and components. Many users have pointed out that this simplicity enhances efficient system management and contributes to a positive user experience.
Robust Security Measures: Customers have commended the system for its strong security measures and access management features for IT administrators, ensuring a secure environment for server administration. The emphasis on security has been noted by several reviewers as a crucial aspect of the system's overall functionality.
No issue but this is great management tool for UCS
This is well suite for small deployments and changes are directly implemented on fiber interconnects
Manage data center environment, audit system, check problem, update system, verify compatibility. Uniform system, introduce general system.
Automation with ansible
I use Cisco UCS Manager to manage my company's Cisco UCS Server. The servers are part of a large infrastructure, and a private cloud offers the process power that my company needs.
Easy deployment of work scenarios and good management of the integration of network.
We use Cisco UCS to run ESXi hosts for our vSphere environment. UCS enables us to easily deploy and manage ESXi en masse while keeping configurations consistent.
Cisco UCS is very well positioned for large-scale enterprise and/or provider environments. Cisco UCS is not ideal for small business.
We use UCS Manager to configure all of our Cisco UCS blade infrastructure. We are able to create different server profiles for different use cases.
we provide multivendor support to lots of customers and i provide troubleshooting assistance to these customer
well done
Cisco UCS Manager is utilized in large enterprise environment, supporting over 20,000 devices and users in public school system.
Implemented Cisco UCS over 15 years ago. It serves well in large school environment. We have devices in every room. Implementing E911 soon. The ROI in smaller school environments might not be optimal.
We are using UCS Manager to manage our one of the biggest Virtualization workloads. Private could and VDI workloads.
It helps save precious datacenter space. Easy to configure, use and troubleshoot. Server management approach using server profiles saves a lot of time configuring and managing servers. Also server hardware maintenance is very flexible and easy.
If you have really thigh datacenter space where every inch matters Cisco UCS manager would be one of the perfect solutions to apply.
Server profiles are very easy and time friendly option to apply settings for multiple blade servers. Easy to setup and manage.
If you have very fast changing and demanding workloads blade option could lack the vertical server scale option.
Cisco UCS Manager is one of the core technology in our infrastructure, we have 2 standalone Cisco UCS Server and also 3 UCS Hyperflex server, all of which are managed from UCS manager. UCS is our monitoring platform for Hardware issues and maintenance process. With UCS we have unified all our server platform.
Cisco UCS Manager is well suited for big infrastructures and environments where you need an scale solution, so you need to expand you server farm, this automation tools is for you. It doesn't mean that there's no other solutions for little or mid scale data centers, but this solution is not for you, because all tools it has would be overwhelmed.
These Cisco UCS machines are being used primarily as our VMware Host servers. I am amazed at how much hardware they're able to fit inside of the blades. They have been rock solid for many years. We haven't had much in the way of hardware failures. Some memory modules and a power supply. Cisco has been easy to deal with for replacing any parts that have gone bad. Even with bad memory modules, the machine kept functioning by shutting down those defective modules. Deploying new servers from a template is really easy. If you make your template an 'Updating Template' then any changes you make automatically get made on the profiles derived from the template. I'd suggest making sure you set your maintenance policy to make changes to 'On Next Boot' and the Reboot Policy to 'User Ack'. That way you don't have machines rebooting immediately after a change.
These have been the best VMware hosts we've ever used. Both in terms of reliability and configuration. You will need to wrap your head around how policies, pools, and templates all function together. Knowing that we can easily migrate our profile from one blade to another if needed makes DR planning much easier.