Cisco UCS Director vs Morpheus comparison

Cisco and Morpheus Data are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Morpheus Data is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.0. Cisco holds a 1.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Morpheus Data’s 6.2% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Morpheus Data users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Director

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Cisco UCS Director and Morpheus are competing in the cloud management software category. Morpheus appears to have the upper hand with its comprehensive feature set, while Cisco UCS Director is appealing due to its affordability and support.

Features: Cisco UCS Director offers robust automation, thorough infrastructure management, and workload automation features. Morpheus provides extensive cloud management tools, supports multi-cloud environments, and integrates advanced DevOps tools. Morpheus stands out with its broader compatibility with various cloud platforms.

Room for Improvement: Cisco UCS Director could improve its multi-cloud support, simplify its integration process, and expand compatibility beyond Cisco-centric ecosystems. Morpheus would benefit from reducing its high upfront costs, enhancing its user interface for simplicity, and expanding its documentation for better usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Director requires a detailed setup within the Cisco ecosystem, backed by reliable customer support. Morpheus offers straightforward deployment and excels in customer service, easily integrating into diverse infrastructures for adaptability.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Director is generally more affordable, with lower initial setup costs, appealing to businesses invested in Cisco products. Morpheus, with higher upfront costs, offers expansive multi-cloud capabilities, suggesting greater ROI potential for varied cloud strategies.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

21st

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Morpheus

Ranking in Cloud Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morpheus is 6.2%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Morpheus	6.2%
Cisco UCS Director	1.8%
Other	92.0%

Cloud Management

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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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MarkWittling

NFV Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Seamless upgrades, stable, and easy to deploy

We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage. Their main focus is on allowing customers to deploy virtual machines to Azure, Google Cloud, AWS (and other private or public clouds they support). They provide features such as guidance and cost optimization. However, we're using Morpheus for on-prem v center clouds, which is probably not the user base norm. We are very pleased with the dashboard and multi-tenancy capabilities, but there are some challenges when deploying and configuring the more complex Telco workloads that have advanced networking. The integration of the NSX-T needs to be refactored. As I have been working on the API, there are some issues with the workflow engine in the automation that need to be addressed. For example, I need to be able to flag a task as fail or continue on fail if something goes wrong in the workflow. Currently, if one of the tasks in a twenty-task workflow fails, the remaining nineteen are not run, which can be a problem if one of those tasks is critical, such as when patching or doing security tasks. Thus, workflow enhancements and improvements are necessary. Morpheus desires the ability to control the full life cycle of a virtual machine from beginning to end. We have many vendors who want to establish virtual machines, but we want users to access them through Morpheus. We want the VMs to be provisioned from an external system and then be managed in Morpheus so users can only perform limited activities without being able to delete or provision them. We are currently working on resolving this issue, which I refer to as reconciliation. I have asked the developers to implement multi-tenancy, where each tenant has their own landing page at a unique URL. However, we are using groups, not tenants, so there are features we can do with tenants that we cannot do with groups. Specifically, I am trying to get the developers to add notifications support so that when a group member logs in to the Morpheus portal, they can be informed of their VMs' maintenance schedule at a specific time. This is a feature I have requested them to add. We are generally pleased with Morpheus, however, due to some restraints and restrictions, we are utilizing it differently than the majority of its users. This creates some difficulty.

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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

"Better visibility and better control are the main benefits people receive from Cisco UCS Director; the automation and the orchestration part, these three to four points are the key factors to decide on Cisco UCS Director."

"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."

"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."

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

"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."

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

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

"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."

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"The user interface of the application is exceptional."

"Provides a good automation platform."

"The most valuable feature of Morpheus is its strong integration with vSphere Cloud."

"The most valuable feature for me was cost optimization."

"Morpheus is an intuitive solution that is very easy to use."

"Morpheus provides a very easy and one-click solution to scaling up and down."

"In my organization, Morpheus is a very useful tool to automate processes—for example, provisioning new virtual machines reduces the time required, and every action is very fast using Morpheus, allowing me to prepare new environments for testing or proof-of-concept projects."

"The multi-cloud integrations and the DevOps and operational integrations are the most valuable. Morpheus platform is a centralized set to manage different clouds and your on-premise platforms. It does a very good job of what it is designed to do. It is very good in terms of features. It is extremely stable and easy to install. It is also very scalable. Their support is also extremely good."

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Cons

"The product's pricing needs to improve."

"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."

"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."

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

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

"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."

"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."

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

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"The tool could support virtual network functions better. It is really good at doing enterprise-type of things, but one of the things on which we're working with them is loading very complex virtual machines with it, such as Juniper SRX routers. It needs to support more complex virtualized resources a little bit better. Aside from that, it is a terrific tool. We really like it."

"We had to put in much effort ourselves since Morpheus's support wasn't always available to help us."

"I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management tools as improvements to Morpheus."

"I faced a few problems while deploying."

"There is room for enhancement in integrating Morpheus with other solutions."

"Morpheus is working hard on creating an integration framework due for release in Q2 2021 which will allow clients to create their own interfaces and integrations into any 3rd party product that has a full-function API. Morpheus is also heavily focussed on enhancing the container management side to compete head-to-head with Openshift and CloudForms in Q3 2021."

"The service is limited and somewhat lacking."

"The solution's pricing and customization need to improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution is significant."

"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 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."

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

"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."

"The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers."

"Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly."

"The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model."

"Morpheus doesn't directly support cost optimization, but its API integration can facilitate resource optimization. It doesn't dynamically optimize resources like an aeronautic system would; it operates step by step."

"Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

11%

University

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?

While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?

It should be more of a cloud-based architecture for Cisco UCS Director, and it should be affordable to small customers as well because the pricing is a major challenge when we talk about Cisco UCS ...

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What is your primary use case for Cisco UCS Director?

Mainly in my region and country, large data center customers are using Cisco UCS Director, not the SMB or mid-market customers. More of the on-premise customers are utilizing Cisco UCS Director. Th...

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What do you like most about Morpheus?

The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Morpheus?

We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.

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What needs improvement with Morpheus?

I think that adding artificial intelligence or a large language model inside Morpheus would be very useful for clients. I would suggest adding integrated tools such as FinOps or other management to...

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Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP

Overview

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

Cisco

Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.

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Sample Customers

Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge

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