Cisco UCS B-Series Primary Use Case

PK
Data Center SME at Orange España

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.

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Olalowo Olaleye - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior VMware\Cloud Solutions Engineering Consultant · at Shell

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.

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Rishabh_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use it primarily for computing purposes.

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Prasanth Kailasam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Client Manager at GBM

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.

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Filip Kopecký - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at HOPI HOLDING a.s.

We are running many applications for a logistics provider. We do the storing of goods for our partners and transport and so on.

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Mahmoud Elsayed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Zak Solution

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.

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JohnDeavers - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at ePlus Technology

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.

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Javed Koor - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Administrator L3 Support at Diyar United Company

We use the solution to host all of our USX. The solution was deployed for the hypervisor.

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KE
Cyber Security Analyst at Petrotrade

I use the solution in my company in our virtual environment along with VMware, and it hosts around 23 virtual servers while also being able to offer features in the area of unified collaboration in our call center.

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HN
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Taha Yegenler - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Programmer at Turkish Airlines

We use the solution for our network system.

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SB
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We host mostly our production environment in these Blades. We choose this series due to the reliability/stability and for ease of scalability. We are a 24/7 business and uptime is most critical for us. Stable environment with 99.99% uptime including a good scalable architecture is something like "Gold with Fragrance"

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RajPrakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Project Manager at MSSL

We use the solution to help manage our data centers.

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HK
Associate Engineer at Quess GTS

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. These systems are for advanced data.

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MM
IT infrastructure at Halcon

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.

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Mohsin-Raza - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Data Center & Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is an on-premises enterprise solution that is primarily used for Microsoft, Linux, and Oracle workloads which require intensive computing for hosting/running clustered and standalone applications.

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David Fartouk - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Cisco UCS B-Series as a central computing environment.

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ST
Presales Solutions Architect at Intracom Telecom

The solution is being used for our internal use along with VMware.

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SP
Senior Technical Consultant at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for infrastructure management.

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RO
Senior Principal Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Primarily, we use UCS to run our virtualization stack.  

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DR
Sr. Information Officer at Merino Industries Ltd (Merino Group)

Cisco UCS B-Series are the Blade servers where we have installed VMware.

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BOUMAIZA Aymen - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at Adactim

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.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

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.

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it_user901308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mostly VMs, for hosting virtual infrastructure. It represents 99 percent of our computing workforce.

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SM
Head Of IT Infrastructure and Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution for a server.

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AR
VMware Administrator at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this product for SAP HANA in a QA development environment. It is at the core of our business.

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AH
Team leader at Dana energy

I use this solution for general company services, including file-sharing, Microsoft services, active directory services, and backup solutions.

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AP
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We use it in our data center. In our infrastructure, we virtualize our servers.

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Neeraj Mehra - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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.

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MS
VMware Software Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution can be useful for cloud solutions and they are automatized. Everything is automatized, and it's highly available.

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DA
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.

The solution is primarily used for computation purposes. 

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WK
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using this solution to connect to a rack system.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco UCS B-Series
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco UCS B-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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