Cisco UCS Director Reviews

We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment.

Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call centers, program, provision, and set up phones. 

Additionally, it manages to support our extensive VoIP services efficiently.

The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features. 

The product's pricing needs to improve. 

We use it in our company to manage multiple UCS traffics and servers.

Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place.

In most of the projects I've worked on, the use cases are tied mostly to orchestrating the on-prem infrastructure, and specifically to achieving a self-service for infrastructure. For example, we have the Cisco infrastructure, which is UCS, which also has other integral components like the storage network. If you want to provision workloads on this infrastructure, we also want to take care of these third-party products such as NetApp and Cisco switches and routers. So we use the UCS Director to define a blueprint or a workflow, which we then use to orchestrate each and every step that is supposed to be part of this automation.

I've not seen many products out in the market like UCS. If the infrastructure is Cisco, but the UCS Director has more templates and blueprints that help us jumpstart Cisco infrastructure automation.

I use the solution for data center upgrades.

The solution is helpful for centralized management.

We use this solution to generate workflows.

It is deployed in our private cloud environment.

This solution has improved the performance of our network.

My company's customers use the Cisco UCS Director to support the servers from Cisco UCS and for configuration purposes.

It is not possible to compare Cisco UCS Director to other products in the market since it is considered to be a specialized product to support a specified system, meaning Cisco UCS Director can be used only for servers that fall under Cisco UCS. The integration capabilities provided by the product are okay. The product's GUI looks nice since it is not difficult to understand and easy to manage.

We primarily use this solution for automation. In my team, we manage approximately one thousand UCS blades. As such, scalability is very important. We use UCS director for simplified deployment, where we can use a single pane of glass to view everything across our thirty-five to forty data centers that we have globally.

This solution provides us with what we need for scalability. When it comes to managing devices, if we had to log into each and every device, one by one to do whatever we need, then that is not scalable. We would require between fifty and a hundred engineers to do that, and I don't have that luxury. I only have about twenty engineers on my team.

UCS plays a role in our ability to be agile in our deployment. It gives us the ability to deploy in a short time period. Prior to using this solution we had to do a lot of manual work, so we had dependencies on several different teams for the network, storage, and whatnot. UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else.