Cisco UCS B-Series Reviews

The Cisco UCS Blade Server system is our newest blade server system. We bought the server as the winning server system for our Oracle Peoplesoft Campus Solution system. It bested bids from Oracle, IBM, HP and Dell.What we really like about the product is the scalability of the entire server system. the platform's architecture ensures that we can easily grow our systems as the need arises.The server system also has the necessary features that we want like tight integration with virtualization technologies and storage systems. We have gone full virtualization with our Oracle system implementation and we are very satisfied with the implementation.Lastly, Cisco really did a good job in making sure that such a server system does not produce unnecessary cable clutter.

The downside when using anything from Cisco is the required knowledge needed to ensure proper implementation. The server system can be very daunting for an untrained system administrator to configure.Also, the server system can consume a lot of power. Proper preparations must be taken to ensure that the electrical and cooling facilities where the new server will be housed is sufficient for this server system. I would definitely recommend this product as its benefits far outweigh its drawbacks. Just make sure that you buy all the necessary components to have a complete system.

Choosing the right partner for implementing the system is also critical. They must be knowledgeable in implementing the Cisco UCS system as its a very complicated system to set-up. The implementation must also include a system administrators training so that company administrators can manage the system after configuration and deployment.

The most valuable features of the Cisco UCS B-Series are reports for virtualization and the large memory it has. 

Cisco UCS B-Series competitors have similar features as they do, Cisco needs to make some changes to make their offering better.

The integration and support could improve, there are some challenges. Additionally, the competitor has its own storage in its portfolio, Cisco should have the option as well.

I have been using Cisco UCS B-Series for approximately five years.

Cisco UCS B-Series is a reliable solution.

I have found the solution scalable.

The technical support of the Cisco UCS B-Series is good.

The initial setup was difficult for us because we are used to the old systems. With the new solution, it is quite a different experience.

Cisco UCS B-Series is an expensive solution.

I rate Cisco UCS B-Series an eight out of ten.

• Easy to deploy, scale and expand based on a number of server range available.
• Centralization for different resources including network, compute and storage

Any Datacenter or organization implementing UCS-B series will find it easy for its IT team in terms of changes required to add more servers and redundancy.

Perfect device, but only if the GUI is made .NET-based, it will be more great.

I've had no issues with deployment.

I've had no issues with stability.

I've had no issues with scalability.

The most valuable feature is the UCS Manager which integrates everything.

Java and HTML 5 base admin console is now available

Its provisioning and ease of management have improved our functioning.

Power Options for setting up Grid needs to have further customization.

N+1 for power supply is not applicable in some data centers

I've used it for 3 years.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with stability.

N+1 for powersupply is not applicable on grid type data centers

It's highly scalable. With everything set up, downtime is never an issue when adding blades.

Cisco has been very supportive to us, as well as the partners

A bit complex since using the FI was new to us.

Vendor team were very helpful and was able to train us to use and manage the system.

We used a Versa Stack solution so compute and storage was a breeze once setup was done.

• Management: The admin interface is very intuitive.
• Easy scalability: For example, when adding a new blade server to the chassis or when adding a new chassis, I can use the old management IP address to manage and create new profile.

I can deploy new resources for applications very fast.

Cooling. It is hotter than HP blade servers.

I have been using it for two years.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is very good.

We previously used a different solution, and we switched because this product is cheaper.

Initial setup was straightforward with its interactive GUI.

We also evaluated Fujitsu products.

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• Remote Access to the device
• Ability to scale to different servers
• Centralized management

Customers and organizations are benefited by its scalability, flexibility, and the fact it takes less time to deploy.

I've used it for almost one year.

In most of our deployments, no issues were encountered.

The product is stable (with new versions of the firmware), although previous versions were having some issue with stability.

In most of our deployments, no issues were encountered.

Very satisfied with the level of technical support from TAC.

We were using HP Servers but switched due to it having better features and scalability.

The initial setup is straightforward, and a of lot technical documents are also available from Cisco to help.

We have implemented it through our own team in-house.

It's a win-win situation for both customers and vendors due to its features.

Before we had to look for other options, but now we just check the different versions of the product checking the features.

Great consolidation, high mem capacity, excellent reduction on ports.

Very tightly integrated, so once you are all in, you are likely to be there for a long time.