Head of Business at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Top 5
2024-10-30T20:28:00Z
Oct 30, 2024
We have been working with Cisco UCS B-Series for data center operations since 2018. We implemented it in one bank, but everything else is handled by HP.
We get a few deployments here and there. Maybe we did one, two, or three years ago. Recently, we have done some blade architecture, but from Cisco. It's primarily about customer preference, so some customers prefer Cisco UCS.
Initially, Cisco UCS B-Series was part of Cisco's collaboration suite. As part of Cisco's collaboration suite, users used to run Cisco IP telephony solutions on Cisco UCS B-Series. Later, Cisco UCS B-Series came into the market as normal servers to meet the requirements of its users. Cisco UCS B-Series specifically does a good job for certain large or heavy workloads. For vertical scalability, Cisco UCS B-Series is ideally used in the banking and manufacturing sectors in some cases.
We use them for a virtualization environment with VMware ESXi version 7.0, update 3. We have B200 M4 blades in a Cisco chassis connected to Fabric Interconnect switches 6632 with Tracy number 5108. The Fabric Interconnects are integrated with IBM V7000 storage through a Fabric Extender to connect to the IBM SAN storage, V7000. We deploy VMs for the banking sector, such as credit union companies. Sometimes, the VMs hosting all the on-premises systems for disaster recovery (DR) purposes are shifted to the Azure cloud. This is a hybrid cloud environment.
We use it as a stand-alone for computing only in HyperFlex. Using multiple projects and VDI projects, you can utilize distribution and access codes to find the storage that works for various solutions and scenarios.
We've used blades and hyperflex. It's for data center refreshes and greenfield solutions. We've done a lot of HCI Solutions. We're basically taking old three-tier storage, no compute, networking solutions and then pulled into an ACI solution hyperflex or blades. I've worked on both the UCSX series and also the B series. M6, M7, and M5, and with a lot of fabric interconnects - just pretty much anything and everything for UCF.
Senior VMware\Cloud Solutions Engineering Consultant · at Shell
Real User
Top 10
2023-01-20T21:34:39Z
Jan 20, 2023
We use it for our digital adjustment. It's a technology that allows you to unify all the major components you need. You have the networking component, and your servers are connected too. We have an established enterprise system for data, and we do not use the historical component of the use case. We only use the networking and the server component. It is a very robust and reliable solution.
We do not use the Cisco UCS B-Series in our company. Rather, we support it for one of our customers. Using this product allows for the virtualization of all things, including MAC addresses and the profile. If we have an issue in a physical server then we just have to remove it, put another one in its place, and reapply the profile. I'm not an expert in using the UCS Blade but I work on it enough to speak a little bit about it. My primary job is support, although I perform some actions.
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-04-16T15:38:00Z
Apr 16, 2021
The UCS Manager, UCS Blades including chassis, and Main Data Centre Virtualization Physical Infrastructure on VMware between sites act as our critical and secure data center environment. This solution is reliable, expandable, agile, manageable, and scales easily, allowing us to focus on using UCS Manager. We are now expanding the Cisco Hyperconverged solution embedded with the UCS manager. This is the plus to expand the reliability, expandability, redundancy, and availability of our data center infrastructure environment.
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-09-13T07:02:28Z
Sep 13, 2020
We host mostly our production environment in the Blades because we have the production data running in those UCS Blades. I'm a senior network engineer and we are customers of Cisco.
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.
Real User
2019-09-10T06:13:00Z
Sep 10, 2019
Our whole VMware Farm is running on Flexpod, which uses the UCS B-Series for compute resources. Using the Blade along with Fibre Interconnect, it provides high availability and ease of migration to other hardware in case of failure. The cabling and power footprint is at the lowest so far.
Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Reseller
Top 5
2019-03-12T07:26:00Z
Mar 12, 2019
We use it for computing and virtualization. All the blade servers are used for database uploads. We are a system integrator. So, we sell multiple type of software and hardware solutions. We implement solutions and provide support. We have multiple versions of the solution currently running. It depends on our customer.
Based on Intel Xeon processor E7 and E5 product families, Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers work with virtualized and non-virtualized applications to increase: Performance, Energy efficiency, Flexibility and Administrator productivity.
We have been working with Cisco UCS B-Series for data center operations since 2018. We implemented it in one bank, but everything else is handled by HP.
We do support to customers as a managed service provider. We use Cisco UCS B-Series, particularly the M5, M4, M3, and M2 series for them.
We are a system integrator and promote Dell solutions to our customers. We deal mostly with mid-range storage, servers, and some backup solutions.
We get a few deployments here and there. Maybe we did one, two, or three years ago. Recently, we have done some blade architecture, but from Cisco. It's primarily about customer preference, so some customers prefer Cisco UCS.
We primarily use the product for hosting our servers.
I use it for telephony.
Initially, Cisco UCS B-Series was part of Cisco's collaboration suite. As part of Cisco's collaboration suite, users used to run Cisco IP telephony solutions on Cisco UCS B-Series. Later, Cisco UCS B-Series came into the market as normal servers to meet the requirements of its users. Cisco UCS B-Series specifically does a good job for certain large or heavy workloads. For vertical scalability, Cisco UCS B-Series is ideally used in the banking and manufacturing sectors in some cases.
We use Cisco UCS B-Series as a central computing environment.
We use the solution for our network system.
We are running many applications for a logistics provider. We do the storing of goods for our partners and transport and so on.
We use them for a virtualization environment with VMware ESXi version 7.0, update 3. We have B200 M4 blades in a Cisco chassis connected to Fabric Interconnect switches 6632 with Tracy number 5108. The Fabric Interconnects are integrated with IBM V7000 storage through a Fabric Extender to connect to the IBM SAN storage, V7000. We deploy VMs for the banking sector, such as credit union companies. Sometimes, the VMs hosting all the on-premises systems for disaster recovery (DR) purposes are shifted to the Azure cloud. This is a hybrid cloud environment.
The solution is being used for our internal use along with VMware.
My company uses Cisco UCS B-Series for multiple use cases. Mainly, we use the product in our company for the general IT infrastructure deployment.
We use it as a stand-alone for computing only in HyperFlex. Using multiple projects and VDI projects, you can utilize distribution and access codes to find the storage that works for various solutions and scenarios.
We've used blades and hyperflex. It's for data center refreshes and greenfield solutions. We've done a lot of HCI Solutions. We're basically taking old three-tier storage, no compute, networking solutions and then pulled into an ACI solution hyperflex or blades. I've worked on both the UCSX series and also the B series. M6, M7, and M5, and with a lot of fabric interconnects - just pretty much anything and everything for UCF.
We use the solution to host all of our USX. The solution was deployed for the hypervisor.
Cisco UCS B-Series are the Blade servers where we have installed VMware.
We use it for our digital adjustment. It's a technology that allows you to unify all the major components you need. You have the networking component, and your servers are connected too. We have an established enterprise system for data, and we do not use the historical component of the use case. We only use the networking and the server component. It is a very robust and reliable solution.
We use it primarily for computing purposes.
We use this solution for infrastructure management.
We do not use the Cisco UCS B-Series in our company. Rather, we support it for one of our customers. Using this product allows for the virtualization of all things, including MAC addresses and the profile. If we have an issue in a physical server then we just have to remove it, put another one in its place, and reapply the profile. I'm not an expert in using the UCS Blade but I work on it enough to speak a little bit about it. My primary job is support, although I perform some actions.
We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. These systems are for advanced data.
I use this solution for general company services, including file-sharing, Microsoft services, active directory services, and backup solutions.
The solution can be useful for cloud solutions and they are automatized. Everything is automatized, and it's highly available.
The solution is primarily used for computation purposes.
The UCS Manager, UCS Blades including chassis, and Main Data Centre Virtualization Physical Infrastructure on VMware between sites act as our critical and secure data center environment. This solution is reliable, expandable, agile, manageable, and scales easily, allowing us to focus on using UCS Manager. We are now expanding the Cisco Hyperconverged solution embedded with the UCS manager. This is the plus to expand the reliability, expandability, redundancy, and availability of our data center infrastructure environment.
We use it in our data center. In our infrastructure, we virtualize our servers.
We use the solution for a server.
We are using this solution to connect to a rack system.
Primarily, we use UCS to run our virtualization stack.
We host mostly our production environment in the Blades because we have the production data running in those UCS Blades. I'm a senior network engineer and we are customers of Cisco.
We use this product for SAP HANA in a QA development environment. It is at the core of our business.
Our whole VMware Farm is running on Flexpod, which uses the UCS B-Series for compute resources. Using the Blade along with Fibre Interconnect, it provides high availability and ease of migration to other hardware in case of failure. The cabling and power footprint is at the lowest so far.
We use it for computing and virtualization. All the blade servers are used for database uploads. We are a system integrator. So, we sell multiple type of software and hardware solutions. We implement solutions and provide support. We have multiple versions of the solution currently running. It depends on our customer.
Mostly VMs, for hosting virtual infrastructure. It represents 99 percent of our computing workforce.