Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters (UCS VICs) Reviews & Insights

Score9.8 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters (UCS VICs) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Stable Communication: Users have praised the consistent communication provided by the product, ensuring a dependable connection.

Effortless Implementation: Reviewers have lauded the seamless and quick implementation process of the product.

Enhanced Usability Features: The inclusion of easy installation, migration capabilities, and intuitive resource monitoring has greatly improved usability.

Server Virtualization Benefits: Users found the product advantageous for server virtualization and systems integration, resulting in reduced bare metal servers.

Value-Adding Functionalities: Users highlighted network load distribution as a valuable feature that enhances the overall product experience. Additionally, they appreciated support for 10/40/100Gbps ports or FCoE, compatibility with up to 256 Virtual Express devices, centralized management options, scalability features, and enhanced control functionalities.

Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters (UCS VICs) Reviews

6 Reviews

A robust product with features that help improve work in real time.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 25, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The platform is perfect for the data center to perform functions in real-time if required. With the Vics we have obtained a considered performance to achieve an integration of physical servers. Cisco UCS satisfies the users and above all the customers by giving a unique fast service. Administration to computers, telephony, and others, it is a robust software. Better communication and Wi-Fi network, the company as a whole makes use of these features, excellent communication through Cisco.

Pros

Stable communication.
Quick and hassle-free implementation.

Cons

From the beginning, a fast implementation without delays was achieved, the usability is also perfect, everything is adequate from the implementation and configuration stage.

Likelihood to Recommend

In general, the company has had significant improvements, where the software has allowed us to have a more fluid and, above all, stable communication system. For many things, I would recommend it, from its level of efficiency to how easy it can be to manipulate it. With a simple implementation. Much faster and cleaner service.

jacod Jones

RPA Engineer in Information Technology at Mr. Cooper (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Cisco UCS is everything we have for everything.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco UCS provides us the best lowest latency as compared to traditional infrastructure it integrates our physical and virtual network in a single infrastructure solution by reducing EXIs required for switching purposes, It distributes the network traffic load on our EXIs by distinguishing their requirements i.e. based on security types and usage of interface and Nevertheless is saves our consumption of energy as well.

Pros

Easy Installation, Migration and At A Glance Resource Monitoring
Enhanced Server Virtualization and Systems Integration
Reduction Of Bare Metal Servers
Network Load Distribution

Cons

Increased Throughput
Lack Of Integration

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideal for datacenters that requires to transmit real time transfer, easily scalable and supports extreme virtualization but it depends what kind of serve node is required it works optimal for all solutions, with inbuilt network, power supply and cooling management it saves numerous resources like human intervention and power consumption.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Positive experience with Cisco UCS VICs.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have in our datacenter some Cisco UCS servers in a rack in a scenario where they are used to implement virtual machines from different systems / services of the company. Services such as switch management software, wireless, telephony and other Active Directory services, printing and files. They are equipment with high performance, robustness and reliability. Cisco UCS VICs implement VM-FEX which helps us to unify the virtual logical network with the physical network structured in a single control and management structure.

Pros

Ports 10/40 / 100Gbps or FCoE.
Support up to 256 Virtual Express devices.
Highly scalable and easy to control.
Centralized and unified management.
Virtualization of VIC adapters

Cons

High product price and warranty service.
Official product documentation can be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

With Cisco UCS VICs we are able to manage the data center more efficiently and better. We have unified LAN and SAN in a flexible and simplified management and also facility to scale more units as needed. VICs are excellent adapters with high performance 10Gbps and 40Gbps ports that integrate physical servers and VMs into a single management.

Onessimo Azevedo

IT Analyst in Information Technology at Rede de Comunicação Interativa (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As tools for Wi-Fi and communication. This is used throughout the whole organization. It assists when there are issues with any communication services. During the time of the pandemic, CISCO was able to allow for a faster service in my home (where it was set up due to teleworking) and still maintain the authenticity of the program.

Pros

communication barriers
wi-fi barriers

Cons

often times restarts without prompt

Likelihood to Recommend

This system has been quite efficient in times such as the snow storm. This allowed and assisted with issues I was having during this time. There are also several people in my home teleworking/schooling where CISCO is not the platform they utilize and I can see the difference, not only in program but operating.

Marissa Cano

Regional Director at BCFS Health and Human Services (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Cisco Unified Computing System Adapters (UCS VICs) Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently use the content-based management to automate and accelerate deployment of all internal applications, that include virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure through VMWare and Microsoft 0365. , scale-out and bare-metal workloads, and in-memory analytics for real time decision making. We also use it for edge computing that supports multiple remote and branch locations.

Pros

Its flexibility allows convergence of multiple stacks of technology to exchange data
The ease and speed of deploying new applications
The central management of policies through automation allows an easier workflow

Cons

somewhat pricey
not as intuitive as some UCS

Likelihood to Recommend

When applications need real time data and user input driven application the Cisco UCS is ideal due to its tight integration that allows the easy and ready deployment of containers for rapid application development, testing and deployment. The system is very salable allowing components to be added as needed with minimal interruption of existing applications and services.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

UCS VIC's Provide Extra Value in Virtualized Environments

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use UCS VICs primarily within our UCS B-Series computing environment. They are used primarily for ESXi servers running within VxBlock or FlexPods within the environment. A tertiary use is for bare metal servers.

The UCS VICs enable us to logically segregate traffic to different network interfaces depending on security requirements for the workloads, and provide different QoS depending on the usage of the interface.

Pros

Decoupled Networking.
Network Segregation.
Network Virtualization.
Converged Networking (FC).

Cons

Standalone Hosts (not connected to UCSM).
Increased Throughput.
Formfactor (UCS C-Series).

Likelihood to Recommend

UCS VIC's work well in virtualized environments. The network virtualization and segregation they provide help enable security requirements for workloads. The network virtualization allows additional virtual network adapters to be added based on additional requirements such as segregation of management and storage traffic from workloads, or applying different QoS policies at the port level.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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