Cisco UCS Director vs HPE OneSphere comparison

Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #41. Cisco holds a 2.0% mindshare in CM, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Director

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100% willing to recommend

Cisco UCS Director

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Cisco UCS Director and HPE OneSphere compete in the IT infrastructure management space. HPE OneSphere offers greater value due to its versatility across various cloud platforms.

Features: Cisco UCS Director provides advanced automation, orchestration capabilities, and is ideal for UCS hardware environments. HPE OneSphere offers hybrid cloud management, strong analytics, and cost-control features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Director's deployment is complex but well-supported, with excellent documentation. HPE OneSphere integrates smoothly across clouds, and its customer service is known for responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Director offers competitive pricing and good ROI in UCS environments but is less cost-effective outside them. HPE OneSphere, requiring a higher initial setup cost, delivers significant ROI through its scalability in mixed IT environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

22nd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE OneSphere

Ranking in Cloud Management

41st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 2.0%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE OneSphere is 1.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco UCS Director	2.0%
HPE OneSphere	1.7%
Other	96.3%

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ErnieRumfield

Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Managing extensive VoIP services becomes efficient and seamless

We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call…

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it_user781113

Solutions Engineer at Data Strategy

Worked right the first time out-of-the-box; we were provisioning to AWS within 10 minutes

Ironically, most of the features that we might have wanted to see were already introduced in the product announcement today, from what we saw in the beta, which was kind of cool. You can't come to market unless you have Azure support, and Azure was all over every slide we saw, so that was pretty cool. A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced. It is way too easy to provision a VM onto a public cloud, wide open to everybody. So, there are a couple of issues there. We are obviously going to talk with the product teams and the architects about some of those things; a handful of things here and there. Most of the things we were looking for were already included. Things that we had requested a month ago, we are now seeing them here: Azure Stack integration and the OneView integration. These were the things we were saying, "Hey, if these were there, it would be really cool. We could use this." All of a sudden, "Oh hey, guess what is going to be at launch?" I am very eager to get my hands on the next version of this product, and to see what may or may not be missing.

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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 reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."

"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."

"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."

"I would recommend this solution to others because it simplifies a lot of tasks via orchestration."

"The improvement for our organization has really been ease of use; we'd be a mess without the solution."

"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."

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"OneSphere being a SaaS platform, you do not have to deal with those issues, it is in quickly and you can begin utilizing it right away."

"With all the time and investment in all the competitive products, still it makes them not even a competitor anymore, with how this works."

Cons

"The solution could be improved is including a feature where I could do things programmatically versus having to create workarounds to get what I want to get done."

"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."

"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."

"It is not easy to add or expand the product."

"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."

"There aren’t any areas of improvement that immediately come to mind."

"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."

"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."

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"We are looking to be able to set a hard budget for the workspaces or projects."

"A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."

"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."

"The cost of this solution is significant."

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Overview

Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

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HPE OneSphere is a multi-cloud management service that unifies management across different public clouds, on-premise private clouds and software-defined infrastructure.

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