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Cisco UCS X-Series

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What is Cisco UCS X-Series?

The Cisco UCS X-Series is a modular system designed for adaptability to simplify IT processes and speed innovation. The system provides users with the right-size infrastructure for the workload and enables operations with the efficiency and predictable TCO needed.

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Cisco UCS X-Series Reviews

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Cisco UCS X-Series a worthy UCS successor

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco UCS X-Series is our primary platform for compute which has allowed us to better consolidate our server footprint while providing increased performance and the ability to have GPUs. The ability to have GPUs associated with the blades has allowed us to reduce the amount of C-series servers needed and the associated port count allowing for increased ROI during our refresh.

Pros

  • Management via Intersight
  • GPUs for blades
  • Increased bandwidth

Cons

  • Additional cooling options to reduce the noise level
  • Increased fiber channel speed above 32 Gbps

Return on Investment

  • Reduced the amount of C-series required and reduced the number of switches as a result.
  • Reduced the required amount of rack space

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Series

Other Software Used

CrowdStrike Falcon, Cisco Duo

Cisco UCS X-Series Review

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Matt Stein
Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Navitus Health Solutions (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we are using UCS across the board for ESX hosts, VDI for virtual machines, windows machines, Linux machines, and OpenShift. We haven't had a ton of opportunities with it. Some hardware, mostly RAM dim replacements, a couple nicks, general hardware things, nothing too serious. The benefits of UCS is that if you have an issue with a blade, you just simple profile move usually 30-45 minutes of downtime. The customers that we support internally seem to like that a whole lot, so even if we have to do some sort of maintenance, the business is also a big fan of it. So when we're doing things like firmware or there is a hardware failure and downtime, it's pretty quick to move a profile and get back up and running. Granted, this is specific to the UCSX, but that is across both the older versions and current UCSX platforms.

Pros

  • The profiles, the ability to take a down server, move the profile and get it back up and running as quickly as possible. Generally to a business is the cherry on top. They like to hear things that are going to be back up and running as quickly as possible because if you're not running, you're not making money.

Cons

  • If you're setting it up from scratch, there's some daunting tasks, but there's a plethora of guides that are available if you can find them and you're willing to read. That would be the biggest. As someone who really likes pictures and likes things to just kind of work and that is a flaw that I will admit. Once you get over the hurdle, things just kind of seem to run from there on forward. Little tweaks here and there. Like I said, once you're up and running, it's pretty easy to maintain and it's good to go.

Return on Investment

  • Nothing negative yet. Only positive. We bought four x chassis in the last six months and we're on target to buy two more before the end of 2025, and we're going to be buying a whole lot more. So we're in, like I said, process of continuing to upgrade and get more UCS as we go.

Good product

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Stephen Parker
Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Centene (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Nice options for chassis. However, we have several quality issues with brand new M-7 blades that have many part failures or even DOA after only a few days of use or less. But with the ones that are working, they do seem to work pretty well. The management of the chassis is much better than the M5 series.

Pros

  • Options
  • Management

Cons

  • Quality control

Return on Investment

  • Positive - can do more with less blades

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, VMware Avi Load Balancer, Nutanix AHV

Cisco UCS X-Series on the go

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Philipp PenoliarView profile
SE in Information Technology at NITSI (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

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

Return on Investment

  • Reduced space requirements
  • Reduced power requirements
  • Reduced and better cooling/heating considerations inside the datacenter

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Series

Other Software Used

HashiCorp Terraform, VMware vSphere, Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)

Most effective data computing software

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Jessica HullView profile
Database Administrator in Professional Services at Ordina (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The networing capability of this prosuct is great and has really developed our IT infrastructure. It is the central location for our servers providing data analysis centre. It has great speed that can implement any type of workload with the help of Cisco Intersight. It is easy to integrate with our applications and learn how it works. The cloud servers are customizable and can sustain multiple volumes of workloads under our command.

Pros

  • Availing cloud servers that are customizable.
  • Preparation of our business for any future occurrence.

Cons

  • I have not experienced any area that requires changes.
  • Tools functionality has been the best in my career experience.

Return on Investment

  • There is positive ROI since we started operating with this product.
  • All data computing programs have been running smoothly.

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