Cisco UCS Manager and Evanios are complementary products in IT management. Cisco UCS Manager leads in infrastructure management while Evanios is stronger in operational integration and automation.
Features: Cisco UCS Manager supports integrated management of compute, network, and storage, provides scalability, and optimizes performance. Evanios excels in incident management, offers automation features, and integrates seamlessly with IT operations.
Room for Improvement: Cisco UCS Manager could improve operational integration, enhance automation capabilities, and offer more flexible deployment options. Evanios could benefit from easier deployment, reduced customization needs, and improved infrastructure management features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Manager offers straightforward deployment and strong support within the Cisco ecosystem. Evanios provides flexible deployment with comprehensive integration support but requires deeper customization for optimal performance.
Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Manager involves higher initial setup costs, yielding a robust ROI through infrastructure efficiency. Evanios has competitive pricing and offers substantial ROI by reducing IT overheads through automation. Cisco prioritizes infrastructure efficiency, whereas Evanios focuses on cost-effective IT operations automation.
I can manage all LAN uplinks and fiber channel storage uplinks directly from UCS Manager.
Cisco UCS Manager provides cost savings by reducing the time support staff spend on long deployments.
For a severity one case, a call ensures immediate assistance and resolution of the matter.
With Intersight, service requests are automatically generated, enhancing the user experience and providing timely resolutions.
Regarding Cisco tech, they are pretty good.
Adding new chassis and extra blades is streamlined.
I would rate the scalability at nine out of ten, probably.
If there's a really complex problem, I would probably give it a ten since it gets escalated quickly.
We would benefit from advancements in AI that offer firmware recommendations automatically, reducing the need for human intervention and vendor communication.
When changes are pushed, it can take their phone line off the system for twenty minutes to half an hour.
While it has been improved from using Java to HTML, simplifying the tabs would enhance user experience.
Recently, we acquired an excellent bundle with significant discounts, with offers like buying three servers and getting one free, along with UCSC and fabric included for free.
As long as they can afford it, there is a setup cost involved.
It supports ease of deployment, allowing for quick mass deployments in the data center, saving time and resources by doing so from a remote location.
Whenever there's a failure of any component, it's very easy to swap because you just disassociate that profile, remove the faulty blade, connect the new blade, and associate that profile, maintaining the same MAC address and worldwide port name.
One of the valuable features is the user interface base, specifically the C user interface.
A key component of the Event Management process is consolidation of events from across the enterprise. By consolidating disparate events into a single solution, they can be de-duplicated and correlated. For example, network failure events can be correlated with system failures, and then prioritized based on service impact.
Reduce the noise
Evanios Integrations allows filtering and processing close to the event source, keeping the weight off of the ServiceNow system for increased performance. Filters are easily configured. EVA, the Evanios consolidation point also has built in event flood control features, to protect against unexpected event storms which can quickly overload traditional integrations.
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