Cisco UCS B-Series Scalability

PK
Data Center SME at Orange España

From a scalability point of view, it is good. We did an upgrade for the memory, and it is stable and easy. We added some hosts in a cluster at the desk level. Scalability is fine.

I have been using it for the last ten years. In my current company, there are around 5,000 end users. 

But now, the users really want to move out of this solution. It's more difficult from a manageable point of view. We need a specific person with expertise to administer the environment. It totally depends on the cost. The users want to save costs, so they want to move to the cloud, either IBM cloud or Orange cloud. They want to move out; they don't want to expand further.

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JohnDeavers - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at ePlus Technology

The B series is pretty scalable. You can have several chassis within an FI pair. Then you could have multiple UCS domains. Now, with the InterSite, you can have multiple configurations more so than the UCSB series with the InterSite managed solutions where you can have B series and you can have both UCS manager and InterSite yet you can't have both. With the UCS X series available, that's another game change.

Our customer base definitely intends to increase usage.

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

It's already made to scale, so you don't need to buy add-ons. In addition, you can use it to restore almost all your needs, not just for Cisco UCS B-Series. We have over 50,000 jobs running on our servers, which is valuable to our whole organization.

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Cisco UCS B-Series
March 2024
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Rishabh_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good because it comes with Fabric Interconnects, and you can directly add more blades as you go. Therefore, scalability is not a problem.

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

We haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s scalability. Around 1,000 to 2,000 users are using the solution in our organization, and we may plan to increase the usage.

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Mahmoud Elsayed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Zak Solution

The solution is scalable. We have more than 52,000 customers using this solution. We have it installed in banking, government entities, and private sectors.

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Muhammad Alihyder Bhuiyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Operations at NCC Bank PLC

Organizations can purchase extra devices or appliances and integrate them easily with Cisco UCS B-Series. It has good scalability. We have more than 3000 end users for it, and we plan to gradually increase the number of users.

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

The solution is scalable.

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Ehsan Emad - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Synnapex

Cisco UCS B-Series is more scalable because of the blade servers. It's one of the most scalable solutions in the whole world.

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

This is a scalable product.

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Taha Yegenler - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Programmer at Turkish Airlines

The tool is scalable. We have 30,000 users.

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

I especially like the scalability aspect because, compared to the HP servers that we had before, those were rack-mount servers whereas the Blade is just a plug and play. If we need more computing power, we just bring a new Blade and plug it in and auto-conservation setup in the profiler takes over the new Blade and it's that easy. We are a team of three admins using this solution. 

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RajPrakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Project Manager at MSSL

The solution is scalable by adding additional hardware.

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FA
Senior System Specialist at Burns & McDonnell

We have not encountered any scalability issues. We added blades and upgraded memory along the way. We had open slots in the chassis and added additional blades. We upgraded the RAM in existing systems for more VM headroom.

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HK
Associate Engineer at Quess GTS

This product is very much scalable. Once you are using active/passive devices, you can switch them depending on the needs of the infrastructure.

Only one of my clients has this device implemented.

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MM
IT infrastructure at Halcon

It is a scalable solution, but it requires a lot of the skills to be able to manage and expand the product.

Around six to seven customers of my company work with Cisco UCS E-Series Servers.

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

The scalability is very portable and swappable. So we can add and expand resources easily. Dozens of people are using the solution in our organization, and six are responsible for managing the infrastructure as administrators.

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it_user429375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Early on, we encountered scalability issues – UCS was to support 40 chassis – but it only did 10, then increased to 20. 20 chassis (160 servers) is more than enough as Moore's law, increased CPU core count and higher network bandwidth all made for the ability to place more workloads in a pod than we were comfortable with. So, it rapidly caught up.

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

Cisco UCS B-Series is a scalable solution with a fairly advanced environment that can scale easily. It is not cheap, but it provides the ability to scale up in terms of computing, networking, and memory. Around 2,000 people are using the solution as our central computing. In terms of management, we're a small team of ten people working with the solution. The solution is being used daily in our organization.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

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it_user68991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Engineering with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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ST
Presales Solutions Architect at Intracom Telecom

It is a scalable solution. A total of fifty users are using the solution at the moment. 

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

In our experience, this is a scalable solution.

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

The scalability of this Cisco product goes without saying because it is what the B-Series was designed to do. You can always add in additional blade servers to your existing chassis. So the scalability is really good and something Cisco built into the product.  

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SM
Systems Administrator at Diyar United Company

I rate the solution's scalability a seven out of ten. It could be improved.

At present, we have implemented it on Hyper V clusters. We have eight blades on two clusters and six blades on one cluster. In total, we have 250 servers installed from those clusters.

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

Cisco UCS B-Series is scalable.

I rate the scalability of the Cisco UCS B-Series a ten out of ten.

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BOUMAIZA Aymen - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at Adactim

This is a scalable solution.

We have four people that work with it.

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RS
System Administrator at ON Semiconductor Phils. Inc.

Scalability is very flexible, thanks to Profiling of the hardware on which you can transfer the profile of a system to another without any action or configuration needed.

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BW
Technical Sales Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

UCS originally promised to support 40 chassis per fabric – that has now been scaled down to 20 – which limits users to domains of “just 160” physical server blades. This has not proven to be an issue or obstacle. The release of UCS Central provides software to manage an array of fabrics so we can scale to thousands of physical servers.

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

The scalability has been great. We started with a small amount, and we started to test the solution. After that, we grew with it as we needed. It's been great and has fit our needs perfectly.

There are thousands of users on the solution. It's used extensively.

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

It is a blade system so it's fairly scalable.

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

The UCS B-Series is easy to scale. We have approximately 1,000 people using this solution, and it is used on a daily basis.

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it_user333597 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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JL
System Administrator

The product is scalable and my company has 5000 users for the solution. 

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MJ
Sr. Operations Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution scales pretty well. We have not had any issues with that.

Currently, I'm the only one using the product in our organization.

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JD
Senior Solutions Architect & Consultant at ZAG Technical Services

Cisco UCS scales rather well and while all other systems are online, therefore allowing for in-place upgrades and updates. The system provides great scalability and versatility in regards to system growths and business requirements. You can easily add additional chassis and blade servers with no impact to the systems running in production.

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it_user164016 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Cisco UCS is very good with scalability, this is one of the ups of the Cisco UCS and I have used this a lot.

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BB
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Probably the RAID card really limits what the servers are capable of if you require storage.

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KW
Senior Infrastructure and Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Cisco UCS B-Series predominantly and have 50 end users in our organization.

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AH
Team leader at Dana energy

The scalability is powerful.

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

I think it's very scalable. I have an opportunity to provide for more Blade Servers, and if I need more power or resources, I just have to provide the Blade Servers. Right now, we have two administrators.

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it_user287739 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Practice Manager at The Plow Group

None. Cisco UCS, to this day, has been the most easily scalable server product I have encountered. Hyper-converged solutions have potential, yet have not shown me that they are scalable at an enterprise level the way the B Series UCS are at this time.

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it_user331470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is designed to address scalability.

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

The scalability of the solution is good. 

I'm not sure how many people are actually using the product. In America, we utilize about 3,000 servers and we utilize 4,000 servers ourselves. That's a total of 7,000 servers.

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

The scalability potential of the product is very, very good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so with relative ease.

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it_user413451 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user326826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security System Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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it_user683436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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

This solution is scalable. 

The scalability is very good.

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it_user334806 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user229368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user229479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user402516 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user229368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In most of our deployments, no issues were encountered.

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JC
GM at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I have found the solution scalable.

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CC
Technical Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco UCS B-Series
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco UCS B-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.