Cisco UCS Director vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

Cisco and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.7, while Oracle is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.1. Cisco holds a 1.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Cisco UCS Director compete in the IT management and monitoring category. Based on user reviews, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive monitoring and centralized management capabilities across a broader array of applications.

Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control offers real-time monitoring, performance analysis, and centralized management, making it suitable for diverse environments. Cisco UCS Director is praised for its integration with Cisco solutions and multi-cloud management, concentrating on Cisco infrastructure with a specialized focus.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control could enhance compatibility with non-Oracle environments and simplify installation processes. Cisco UCS Director needs to address user interface complexity, third-party integration issues, and improve user controls and version management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, offering flexibility, though regional support variability is noted. Cisco UCS Director is mainly deployed on-premises with generally strong support, although complex issues require more time.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is considered expensive but offers comprehensive functionality and ROI, despite licensing complexities. Cisco UCS Director is also perceived as high-cost due to package requirements, and users note additional development efforts for optimal use.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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

Oracle Enterprise Manager C...

Ranking in Cloud Management

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 0.8%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control	0.8%
Cisco UCS Director	1.3%
Other	97.9%

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Sunny Nair

Solution Architect and Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies

Good multi-cloud management capability, but third-party and legacy integration needs improvement

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. I feel that more development or a more integrated road map should be set up so that it becomes a common platform for any infrastructure. In the next release of this solution, I would like to see changes in the navigation controls of UCS Director. That would be helpful. Modifying the icons that are available for use, as well as virtualization aspects.

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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

A robust product to deal with application performance enhancemen

It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are no issues once you install the application, and it works smoothly, meaning there are no issues related to onboarding the application according to a user's chosen profile. I have done the onboarding for more than 1,500 middleware products. There are different kinds of users of the product in our company, but the application itself has 1,500 middleware products. The solution is used on a daily basis, meaning it is used twenty-four hours and seven days a week. There are no plans to increase the use of the solution in our company.

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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

"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."

"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."

"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."

"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."

"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."

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

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."

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"Of course, that you can manage and create the backup strategies from a central environment for all your environments, so you don’t have to do so on each database. You can set up the policy you want for each database, but you do it from a central environment."

"The solution helps database tuning through query ID and SQL ID; we can fine-tune skill parameters and gather information to enhance operational analysis and performance."

"The valuable feature is job scheduling. It manages the database's scheduling, history, and growth, helping monitor CPU and space usage across the entire data center. It provides a comprehensive view of operations."

"The tool's most valuable feature is notifications. It is also flexible in defining metrics where you can specify any metric type. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps monitor the resources you manage so that you do not overpay."

"Another feature is the Resource Manager, where we can manage the consumption of resources of certain queries, separately in resource groups. Depending on the characteristics of the query, queries can be placed in groups that consume less database and hardware resources."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control gives us diverse monitoring capability that can be extremely powerful."

"It is easier to manage your Oracle Database backups and create email alerts regarding the status of your backups (Succeeded or Failed)."

"I use the solution for troubleshooting."

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Cons

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

"The product's pricing needs to improve."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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"The response time of the solution's technical support team is too long and should be improved."

"Oracle Data Guard monitoring: There are no alerts for redo log transport failure."

"The installation steps are very complex and the documentation for them is very generic and does not make very clear the correct steps from the installation to the addition of the host and database."

"Another point that can be improved is the agent instability in the monitored hosts, because sometimes an agent has to be resynchronized to recapture the information."

"They need to simplify it and make it lighter."

"The configuration is not straightforward for web continuity. It needs some improvement and the deployment is expensive."

"Adding new databases is difficult in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control."

"When registering a host, only if your host is running Linux will you get all the information which is available on EM. It would be nice if in future releases to include IBM AIX (primarily) and Microsoft Windows (secondly)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution is significant."

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

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

"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."

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

"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."

"it's neither expensive nor cheap."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"We are using the free version. We are not using any licensed packages of Enterprise Manager, so I’m not quite sure how much each package is. As I understand it, there are different plug-ins that you need to buy for Enterprise Manager."

"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."

"One has to pay for the enterprise version."

"The solution's pricing is fine."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

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	15
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Director?

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

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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 do you like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The valuable feature is job scheduling. It manages the database's scheduling, history, and growth, helping monitor CPU and space usage across the entire data center. It provides a comprehensive vie...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

The price of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is very high, especially when considering the additional cost for features such as the tuning pack, which makes it more expensive compared to mo...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?

I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especia...

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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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Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.

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