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What is Cisco UCS Manager?
Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection.
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What is Cisco UCS Manager?
Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection.
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Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing, and statistics collection.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Icinga, and Nagios Core are common alternatives for Cisco UCS Manager.
The most common users of Cisco UCS Manager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 12, 2024
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Manage data center environment, audit system, check problem, update system, verify compatibility. Uniform system, introduce general system.
- Manage system
- Collect information
- Maintenance the system
- Interact with other system
February 08, 2024
Cisco UCS Manager fair review
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.
- Manage all my UCS server form one point
- Simple interfaces
- Good security and access management for it administrators
- More integration with Cisco ACI
- More support for management of Cisco UCS X Server
June 30, 2023
Cisco UCS Manager
We use Cisco UCS Managers to manage 8 seprate UCS FI domains distributed across two DCs. UCS manager provid us capabilty to manage all our B seres and Cseries server from single pane of glass. service profile are the major benifits of UCSM helping us ensure consistent policies within the system for a given service or application.
- stateless Computing
- Profile Teamplates
- Firmware provisioning
- Call Home support
- there should be a option to check hardware and driver compaitability check and advisor
June 09, 2023
Cisco UCS is the ideal for scale
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.
- Managing unique BIOS configurations
- Managing unique storage configurations
- Deploy blade servers en masse
- The XML API needs a Terraform Provider developed and managed by Cisco
June 09, 2023
UCS Manager delivers as promised
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.
- Server profiles
- Network configuration
- It is extremely powerful, but some features are not as intuitive as they could be
June 09, 2023
ucs benefits
we provide multivendor support to lots of customers and i provide troubleshooting assistance to these customer
- good to manage lots of domains etc
- clean view of the all the servers and components
- detailed logs view etc
- logs are hard to navigate
March 10, 2023
UCS Manager lives up to expectations.
Cisco UCS Manager is utilized in large enterprise environment, supporting over 20,000 devices and users in public school system.
- Provide necessary IP Telephony features and functionality for employees.
- Relatively short support staff learning curve.
- SRST works great.
- Jabber voice quality needs improvement.
- Automated provisioning need work.
- More intuitive UI for new users.
- More integration with third party collaboration tools.
February 11, 2023
Densely packed powerful servers
We are using UCS Manager to manage our one of the biggest Virtualization workloads. Private could and VDI workloads.<br>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.
- Server profiles
- Footprint
- Flexibility
- Navigation system
- Interface
October 31, 2022
UCS Manager all what you need for your UCS Server
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.
- UCS Server provisioning
- Hardware monitoring
- Monitoring topology
- 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
June 20, 2022
Cisco UCS has been great for our organization
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.
- Deploying machines from templates
- Changing settings quickly on multiple machines
- Creating policies for different workload or application requirements.
- 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
At my company, Cisco UCS Manager is used to manage over two dozen Cisco servers from blades to rack-mount to storage chassis. It allows for a single-pane of administration for all tasks such as KVM, upgrades, provisioning, etc. Because Cisco UCS Manager is accessible in all modern web browsers, it allows for flexible administration.
- Convenient access in all modern web browsers using HTML5
- Simple UI layout
- Detailed information on all aspects of hardware and software
- Sometimes too much information is generated by default, such as excessive alerts and email notifications
February 23, 2022
Cisco UCS Manager - The Simple and Ultimate Solution for Managing the Storage, Servers, Network(SSN)
- Cisco UCS Manager helps us to manage our physical server and virtual servers.
- It is helping to manage the hardware like chassis, fans, interface cards, and ports.
- We can create and manage the domain servers, MAC address and will be able to manage the bandwidth of the servers.
- We can use Cisco UCS Manager to manipulate the tasks on the server like creating and managing the server pools
- Manages the server administration, network administration, and storage.
- It is very helpful for managing the high availability environment.
- Cisco UCS Manager is a robust platform to access, manage the servers.
- It does not support cross platform management.
- Only will be able to manage/administer the servers present within UCS domain.
- Will not be able to deploy on windows, linux based operating systems.
February 22, 2022
CIsco UCS Manager at a glance
We use Cisco UCS Manager to manage our blade server/storage systems. With UCS Manager we have been able to have a quick all in one view of all of our server and storage systems. We can provision and decommission systems through the UCS Manager as well as increase the capacity of our systems.
- Server management
- Storage management
- out of band management
- capacity planning
- It has a lot of pieces to it that can easily overwhelm someone who is not in there all the time using it.
- adding extra vlans is not exactly a walk in the park
September 14, 2021
Server management made simple
We utilize a Cisco UCS Manager environment for the vast majority of our server infrastructure. We have multiple environments hosting several dozen VMware hosts, and we also utilize Cisco UCS Manager as a host environment for multiple Nutanix environments. Our environment contains a mix of blade servers and rack mount servers and hosts virtual machines for our entire campus community.
- Centralized management and reporting on your hardware environment.
- Stateless hardware making replacement of failed components extremely easy.
- Reliable environment that rarely has problems.
- Sometimes the web interface doesn't display the best in certain browsers.
- Do not like a few aspects of the GUI - mainly cosmetic - that were done better in the java version.
- A few things could be more intuitive - finding certain things that you don't use frequently for example.
September 11, 2021
Great Value and Lots of Features, bang for your buck
Score 9 out of 10
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Across the whole org[anization].
- Phone management.
- Integration with other vendors.
- Ease of use.
- Software to update background
February 21, 2021
Cisco UCS Manager to manage all your UCS hardware
UCS Manager is used exclusively by the Systems Engineering team to manage several hundred UCS blades we have across multiple datacenters. Using UCS Manager, we are able to efficiently provision, manage, and upgrade hundreds of blades without using tons of employee resources.
- Service Templates: Provision new hardware using templates in the matter of minutes.
- Firmware updates: Modifying the FW level on a template will kick off an FW upgrade on all attached equipment.
- Consolidated Views: See all equipment in a single view.
- Automation: There is a simple power-shell CMD lets, but it leaves more to be desired.
- Navigation: Navigating the interface can be confusing.
- Integration: Integration with ESXi hosts while doing FW upgrades would be hugely beneficial without the need for additional tools.
February 11, 2021
Cisco UCS Manager is the one stop software for managing your Cisco UCS B or C series servers
Cisco UCS Manager is the core utility used to control our data center. UCS manager has just about every knob and button you could imagine a host server might need. You can control all of the hardware and integration points from UCS manager. We use it at all of our sites that have local UCS servers on them. Gaining access through Cisco UCS manager is critical to ensure our large and small data centers stay running. We use these servers for production environment for our admin networks, as well as in a manufacturing automation environments. UCS manager is a powerful tool that we rely on.
- Server Management
- Hardware control
- Controlling Fabric Interconnects
- Connecting storage
- Older interface design
- Sometimes finding detailed settings can difficult
- Slower at times
We use the Cisco Unified Computing System Manager to manage a dual UCS Chassis setup. This setup runs our VMware environment.
- Centralized management of a complicated system.
- Central pane of glass for managing logs, support features.
- UCSM is known for its bugs, especially during code upgrades.
- Similar options can be set in a variety of places with varying effects.
February 12, 2020
Cisco Unified Computing System Manager: It's great!
We host multiple VMware environments from our Cisco UCS. Every department within the company relies on the Cisco UCS on a daily basis. We have enjoyed the Cisco Unified Computing System Manager platform due to its fairly small footprint and ease of management. We have also found that adding and replacing gear within the Cisco chassis is extremely simple as long as you ensure firmware compatibility.
- It shows detailed pictures of the equipment.
- It quickly allows you to view errors/alerts.
- Simplify each dashboard/view within UCSM.
- Integrate other products within UCSM.
July 26, 2019
Cisco UCS harmony with Pure and VMware
UCS is used to run production VMware ESXi clusters across the entire organization. It has allowed integration with Pure Storage and VMware as a validated design (FlashStack).
- Small physical dense blades in 6u of rack space
- Smaller power requirements compared to legacy equipment
- Long term support with VMware
- Still using slightly dated technology for 'phone home'
October 22, 2018
Cisco UCS in Vitualized Higher Education Environment
We are using Cisco's Unified Computing System Manager to manage almost all aspects of our hardware that our VMware virtual environment sits on. We manage everything from the chassis, connectivity, fiber channels, remote console access to servers, and connectivity to our VMware virtual server solutions, as well as, our backup solutions.
- It is very all inclusive for management of every part our our Cisco blade center.
- It allows us to directly connect to a hardware-based server in the blade center as though we were physically at the console.
- It allows us to monitor the entire system for faults.
- It lets us manage connectivity.
- It is set to alert us via email if a fault occurs.
- It is so all inclusive that it can be difficult to navigate the system with ease.
- Setup required an outside consulting firm.
- They need free online fully inclusive training on UCS.
February 15, 2018
Cisco Unified Computing Systems Manager Review
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager is being utilized to manage the converged infrastructure of our organization. It is useful in seeing all hardware in a single pane of glass and be able to configure, manage and update our Cisco blade infrastructure in this manner. It is used by the data center services team. Cisco UCS addresses management problems from using multiple hardware vendors. It allows us to use a single management interface instead of many.
- Once properly configured it is very easy to use. The ability to configure profiles for your blade infrastructure and assign them to specific chassis is beneficial.
- The error reporting is robust. We are easily able to isolate and remediate issues as they arise.
- HTML5 support. The interface is redesigned and does not require a fat client or outdated flash support.
- Initial configuration often requires outside assistance. Without the help from someone who is an expert in the field it would be a high barrier to entry for this product.