Cisco UCS Manager Reviews & Insights

Score9.6 out of 10

90 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Cisco UCS Manager are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

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.

Cisco UCS Manager Reviews

23 Reviews

UCS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

No issue but this is great management tool for UCS

Pros

Monitoring Blade Servers
Template assignment for consistency of the configuration
Logical codes / error for troubleshooting

Cons

Deployment Analysis
Recommendations relevant customer use

Likelihood to Recommend

This is well suite for small deployments and changes are directly implemented on fiber interconnects

Verified User

Manager in Corporate (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Cisco live 2024

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Manage data center environment, audit system, check problem, update system, verify compatibility. Uniform system, introduce general system.

Pros

Manage system
Collect information
Maintenance the system

Cons

Interact with other system

Likelihood to Recommend

Automation with ansible

Mauro Bettati

It specialist in Finance and Accounting at Cedacri (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cisco UCS Manager fair review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Manage all my UCS server form one point
Simple interfaces
Good security and access management for it administrators

Cons

More integration with Cisco ACI
More support for management of Cisco UCS X Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy deployment of work scenarios and good management of the integration of network.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Cisco UCS is the ideal for scale

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Managing unique BIOS configurations
Managing unique storage configurations
Deploy blade servers en masse

Cons

The XML API needs a Terraform Provider developed and managed by Cisco

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco UCS is very well positioned for large-scale enterprise and/or provider environments. Cisco UCS is not ideal for small business.

Chance Barnett

Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Stewart Title (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

UCS Manager delivers as promised

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Server profiles
Network configuration

Cons

It is extremely powerful, but some features are not as intuitive as they could be

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

ucs benefits

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we provide multivendor support to lots of customers and i provide troubleshooting assistance to these customer

Pros

good to manage lots of domains etc
clean view of the all the servers and components
detailed logs view etc

Cons

logs are hard to navigate

Likelihood to Recommend

well done

mehboob elahi

network support engineer in Information Technology at ibm (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

UCS Manager lives up to expectations.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 10, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco UCS Manager is utilized in large enterprise environment, supporting over 20,000 devices and users in public school system.

Pros

Provide necessary IP Telephony features and functionality for employees.
Relatively short support staff learning curve.
SRST works great.
Jabber voice quality needs improvement.

Cons

Automated provisioning need work.
More intuitive UI for new users.
More integration with third party collaboration tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

Densely packed powerful servers

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Server profiles
Footprint
Flexibility

Cons

Navigation system
Interface

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

UCS Manager all what you need for your UCS Server

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

UCS Server provisioning
Hardware monitoring
Monitoring topology

Cons

More documentation and tutorials on how to do for example ISCSI
A native automatic alert system for hardware issues
Hardening for Web console and Web GUI

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Gerardo Huerta Robles

Ingeniero Consultor in Engineering at Vinet (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Cisco UCS has been great for our organization

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Deploying machines from templates
Changing settings quickly on multiple machines
Creating policies for different workload or application requirements.

Cons

Updating hardware could be easier to manage
Default settings for BIOS policies for common applications like VMware or SQL
Better documentation for the BIOS settings

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Randy Groesbeck II

Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Landstar (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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