Cisco UCS Manager vs Nutanix Prism comparison

The compared Cisco and Nutanix solutions aren't in the same category. Cisco is ranked #24 in IM , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 1.7% mindshare in the category. Nutanix is ranked #2 in VM , with an average rating of 9.1, and holds a 17.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Manager

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95% willing to recommend

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism Report (Updated: May 2023).

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Cisco UCS Manager vs. Nutanix Prism

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Manager

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (24th)

Nutanix Prism

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (2nd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (4th)

Mindshare comparison

Cisco UCS Manager and Nutanix Prism aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cisco UCS Manager is designed for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 1.7%, up 1.4% compared to last year.
Nutanix Prism, on the other hand, focuses on Virtualization Management Tools, holds 17.1% mindshare, up 10.6% since last year.

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Joshua Kurian

Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

Apr 8, 2024

Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies

The solution's SDK and API can be integrated with ServiceNow for ticketing for any purpose. The solution's unified management interface is a central point of management that allows us to manage switches, blades, and storage connectors. One person is enough to maintain the solution. The speed of the network interface has been 100 G since day one. The network is scalable, and GPU nodes can be added seamlessly. Cisco is claiming to support water cooling in the near future. The solution can be easily integrated with other tools and platforms. Compared to Dell, Cisco UCS Manager provides straightforward configuration, reusable policies, and flexibility. Dell lacks a proper GUI for configuring everything. Cisco has only one GUI, which allows us to configure everything, including the network server and server profile. Before releasing each model, Cisco should conduct proper testing or engineering validation to ensure that the customer doesn't face any issues initially. Overall, I rate Cisco UCS Manager a nine out of ten.

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Arpan Rakshit

IT System Administrator at Bandhan Bank

Jul 25, 2023

Reduced our administration and rack space significantly, with everything in one box

Nutanix is a great product, but I won't say it is a data center product. If it could leverage or work with non-Nutanix infrastructure, it would be a total data center solution. Right now, with Prism Central, we can only manage Nutanix clusters. If we were able to manage the whole data center from the single pane of glass, it would be more helpful. I think that would help all customers. Also, Nutanix Flow for microsegmentation is limited right now to AHV clusters, meaning only Nutanix clusters. If it could integrate with all my infrastructure, I would have a pane of glass where I could manage my whole data center, including microsegmentation. They really need to extend its features beyond the Nutanix infrastructure. That is the one thing I would really like to see improvement on.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."

"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."

"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."

"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."

"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."

"The most valuable features of Cisco UCS Manager include the visibility it provides and the ease of identifying issues within the Cisco environment."

"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."

"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."

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"We were impressed with Nutanix, overall. Some of the other main drivers for our switch to it were the simplicity of setting up our Nutanix clusters, ease of management, and that their support is very respected. There is an overall ease of use, compared to VMware. I'm sold on their product."

"The Clone and Snapshot features are two of the most valuable aspects of the solution for our organization. Rather than simply one-click automation the Snapshot and reverse Snapshot are great."

"Prism Central is a single point to manage every cluster. Everything can be managed in one panel. Everything is there on the main page of the dashboard."

"The most valuable features are Prism Central and the Disaster Recovery."

"Nutanix Prism is popular in the Indian market, particularly in enterprises where they need a DR type of environment, and where they look for less than finite RPO and RTO. If you have this environment on-premises, and if you can just rent out some portion to any of the service providers, then you can easily set up a DR environment to give you a finite list versus RPO and RTO."

"Nutanix Prism's dashboard is very simple, and you don't need much knowledge to use it."

"Everything has been valuable, without a doubt the server is self-managed with Prism in an efficient way, it solves possible logical errors to maintain production without interruptions, it's great."

"Aside from ease of use, scalability is one of the key points of this solution."

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Cons

"Improving functionalities similar to InterSite within UCS Manager would be beneficial."

"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."

"I would like to see improved visibility into the operating system, enabling us to identify issues directly from the operating system itself."

"The integration with other solutions could be better. I think Cisco can only integrate using Intersight. There is a second interface available as a SaaS platform, in the cloud, or on-premise. It's based on the Redfish protocol, which is standard for all the B-series servers in the market. We can integrate other solutions using API."

"The pricing can be better."

"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."

"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."

"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."

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"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."

"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"There are no firewall policies."

"There is a need for more migration tools, especially for migrating a solution from non-Nutanix environments to a Nutanix environment, particularly for systems with shared disks."

"The automation needs to be improved, as there are several challenges."

"I would like to see the integration of native, one-click "open support ticket" functionality for errors generated by the system within Prism. Currently, we have to manually open a support ticket in a separate web browser and manually input the error information."

"Perhaps the interface can be more intuitive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for Cisco UCS Manager is okay for its market, so it's a four out of five for me."

"With product discounts which can be negotiated, the product is a great value."

"We need to take a license for each port, which amounts to a big sum."

"You buy the hardware and then you get Cisco UCS Manager for free."

"Cisco UCS Manager’s annual licensing fee is expensive."

"Cisco UCS is more expensive than Dell and HP, but it is more reliable. I see less issues and it's quite stable."

"The pricing was decent, average. It wasn't a Black Friday sale, but it was good."

"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap."

"This product is cheaper than using VMware."

"Nutanix Prism is priced better than some of the competing solutions."

"The licensing aspect is painful. We are told, "This is when you have to renew. This is the serial number and the part number," et cetera. But it's difficult to know where something belongs unless you dive into the portal and search in multiple areas for a particular serial number."

"...we use it for small and medium-sized businesses. For those companies, Nutanix is too expensive, it's for bigger businesses..."

"A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved."

"Nutanix Prism is affordable. It depends on the category of license you select. They have multiple options, and we selected the one that was suitable for our infrastructure and requirements. The licensing model worked for us."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

32%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

26%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Manager?

When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Manager?

Cisco is the most expensive compared to other vendors like Dell and HP when it comes to data center solutions.

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Manager?

There are options that could make configuration and administration easier. Improving functionalities similar to InterSite within UCS Manager would be beneficial.

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What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?

I rate the product price as an eight out of ten. It is a premium solution that can be a bit expensive. Sometimes, additional features are needed.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?

The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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Overview

Cisco UCS Manager helps significantly reduce management and administration expenses by automating routine tasks to increase operational agility. Customers can extend the benefits of Cisco UCS Manager globally across an enterprise to thousands of servers in multiple domains with Cisco UCS Central Software.

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

Sample Customers

Management Science Associates, Peak 10, Virtual Consulting Professionals

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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