We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."
"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."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"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."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is the one-click upgrade and the analytics it can provide for hyper-converged infrastructure."
"We use Calm's one-click self-service feature and it's really transforming the team's efficiency. The teams are used to being reactive, which is typical of what you find in IT organizations and service providers. Customers run into problems and teams react. What we're trying to do is reduce that slope and be more proactive in approach. The one-click ability is enabling us to take some of those activities and put them into operation, versus people manually responding."
"The ease of use is a valuable feature. For us, it's a consistent interface. It's very easy to train our employees on it, and it's a newer generation interface. It's homogeneous, and every product and subset tie together, giving a very similar look to everything."
"It is interesting to me how Nutanix manages hyperconvergence, the possible failures that can occur in the platform migrating machine machines to nodes without problems while solving the failed node, but without a doubt prism is the feature that I value the most since I can manage and monitor everything in a single tool, giving me simplicity, statistics, states of equipment resources, alerts, updates in a single click, migrate equipment nodes manually or automatically."
"The solution's support for scripts... has reduced the man-hours it takes to deploy and support applications because we don't have to rewrite all the scripts."
"The self-service capabilities allow us to orchestrate our deployments without writing code, and they also use artificial intelligence to improve our security posture."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Manager is the flexibility we're finding in expanding our technology and our support."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to find a machine, regardless of which cluster it's located in, as quickly as possible, and being able to work on it. A lot of times we are called upon to troubleshoot an issue. That usually means there's a problem that needs quick attention. Being able to find machines, ascertain their status, and do so in a timely manner, are processes that are very critical to our business needs."
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
"Even though it's a lot easier, it could be a bit slicker for the end-users. The ability to create their own blueprints could be without their having to understand the details of what they're trying to do. If they could just tick this, this, this, and this — whatever they need — and it would go spinning those up, that would be better. Now, we still guide them quite a bit."
"The licensing procedures are not smooth and easy."
"Initial setup can be complex and requires professional services."
"We would like to be able to provision virtual machines at the computing level, as that would give us an added value against the competition."
"Nutanix has room for improvement around the partner tools and making them approachable and easier to learn."
"There are some load-balancing features that are currently missing in the flow network security and could potentially be added in the future."
"Few systems are not business-critical, but they run 24/7."
"Azure has a public cloud offering, and it also has a CSP model that allows Microsoft partners to provide Azure as a service to their customers. Cost Governance only works on the standard public cloud, not the CSP model. When I was at my previous company, we frequently got requests for Azure CSP support. We also got some requests for Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud, but Azure CSP was the biggest one."
Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 3rd in Cloud Management with 72 reviews. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "A compact and flexible solution with a lot of features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "An intuitive and easy-to-learn product that saves cost and time". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with vCloud Director, Morpheus, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware Aria Operations and OpenNebula. See our Cisco UCS Director vs. Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) report.
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