Cisco UCS Manager Primary Use Case

PK
Data Center SME at Orange España

I use UCS Manager to create profiles associated with blades, like WLAN numbers and MAC addresses. I also create policies, such as scrubbing policies  and maintenance policies for server removal and maintenance policies. It helps us manage everything.

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MC
Senior Specialist at Freedommobile

We are managing servers and the UCS Mini Switch. The company installed a couple of servers and a Blade server for our production traffic. We have this higher production load and a backup solution on site for storing secure, critical data and applications.

It's a redundancy solution for critical banking applications and anything else running on top of the server. You can run any kind of application through redundancy, so it'll be easier to manage on the UCS side.

Five people on my team use UCS Manager, but people on other teams have a different UCS server. We don't use UCS Manager much. We still have a couple of Cisco servers, but we primarily rely on other vendors like Dell and HP. 

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Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

We use Cisco UCS Manager to manage the servers associated with it, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies. It's like the brain of the UCS system, in which users can log into Cisco UCS Manager and control all the infrastructure below it. All the configurations for servers and Fabric Interconnect can be done by the Cisco UCS Manager. Nowadays, users are opting for a cloud solution instead of using Cisco UCS Manager.

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PankajKumar8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

My company uses Cisco UCS Manager for managing Cisco UCS Blade and rack server, the physical server, for the virtual environment, Vmware. Suppose you have five hundred blades or more in the organization. It'll be complex to manage individual blades for maintenance purposes. This is where Cisco UCS Manager comes in, as it helps maintain all physical blades in a centralized manner.

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ED
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using this infrastructure for the virtualization usage for our ESX servers.

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AO
Senior System Administrator at Royalcement

Our primary use case for this solution is to help us manage our infrastructure and reduce time and effort for these tasks.

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NE
Solution Designer at a consultancy with self employed

I work for a service provider and we deploy this product for our customers. This is a tool to manage Cisco UCS devices: data servers, networking devices, or whatever Cisco produces under the UCS umbrella. 

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EM
System Specialist at MTN

We primarily usually use UCS Manager where we've installed from the ESXI Host and are hosting multiple UCM's.

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JB
Engineer at ITC GROUP

We use it to get the Cisco UCS Manager to configure all the devices, resources, and the possibility to interact with the CPU's memory and the profiles to manage. Most of the environments that we work with are related to VMware.

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it_user1227537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Lead Consultant - Infrastructure | Virtualization & Cloud Computing | SDN |NFV at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use Cisco UCS Manager for VDI and for connecting to a private cloud.

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PankajKumar12 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco UCS Manager helps us manage all the blades so we can apply quality to templates. Recently, we have installed VMware vCenter from where we manage it. Cisco UCS Manager gives us control of all the blades with a maximum of 160 blades in a single UCS Manager. From there we can manage all the hardware related issues, like upgrades.

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it_user951996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use this solution to manage our infrastructure.

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it_user1219551 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our use case, from our point of view, is that we installed this product in data centers for our customers. I work with six customers currently, and I have to set up the data centers for each of them. For one of them, we run the Cisco UCS Manager. So I have hands-on experience with the setup from end-to-end.  

Usually, we are called by clients specifically about product suggestions. I often personally recommend Cisco UCS because of the high availability. The setup time is quick compared to other products in this category. When we are contracted we have to set up the network, the storage, and other parts of the environment. That means a network and storage link for each and every chassis. But here, because of the configuration of Cisco UCS, we need just one link for all the chassis. This helps us make for quicker delivery time.  

We also monitor the systems, we install and keep spare blades for each and every chassis. Just one or two blades are sufficient for the entire environment. That way, we can easily manage system maintenance. Also, the failover and the profiling system is good with the Cisco product. You can just move the profile to the new blade so that it will start working with the new configuration. This makes it easy during maintenance.  

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ND
IT Infrastructure Engineer with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for software computing within our organization.

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MK
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We mainly use this solution to manage the UCS C and B blades.

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

I am using Cisco UCS Manager for managing our entire ecosystem for Cisco products.

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FC
IT Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is primarily used to manage user infrastructure.

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Cisco UCS Manager
April 2024
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