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Cisco UCS Director vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
27th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Enterprise Manager C...
Ranking in Cloud Management
35th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 1.2%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cisco UCS Director1.6%
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control1.2%
Other97.2%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

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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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technical Manager at DBA Expert Consulting
Extensive tool features support database monitoring, but support and pricing present challenges
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, especially if you know how to configure it properly, as you can use it to monitor other databases such as PostgreSQL and SQL Server in addition to Oracle.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"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."
"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."
"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."
"The improvement for our organization has really been ease of use; we'd be a mess without the solution."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"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."
"The report feature is very useful."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control has improved our organization in many ways: Before implementing this solution, the patching was done manually; now we do the same task with patching management, and before, we used to monitor every server every day, but now we don't have to monitor it because we have an in-place solution and we get alerts so we can proactively monitor every server before a problem happens on it."
"The product has made it possible to reduce the size of the performance team and still be able to correctly monitor all the databases and fix issues quickly, resulting in fewer downtimes."
"One of the clearest examples is the agility of discovering processes/sessions that are burdening the database environment. With this agility, the DBA can more quickly verify this type of problem, in addition to checking locked sessions and not having to do several searches in views and tables of the data dictionary. The tool already does this for you in an agile way."
"The solution offers a good amount of stability and reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is the reporting."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control has been really useful for our organisation."
"The dashboard and reporting help us to do preventative AI and analytics to detect performance bottlenecks."
 

Cons

"The user interface could use improvement."
"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."
"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 Director."
"There aren’t any areas of improvement that immediately come to mind."
"I would like to see more flexibility when it comes to managing other stacks, like VMware virtualization."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"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)​."
"When it comes through India, it's just terrible."
"Sometimes the alerts are coming a bit late, for example, an alert for the CPU. It depends on the threshold that you have, how long you want to check the CPU of the machine. I got some faulty alerts with Data Guard. I had stopped a synchronization for maintenance and then I re-synchronized Oracle Data Guard. It took some time to appear in Enterprise Manager and send me the right notification that Data Guard was up and running and synchronizing. I realized this because I went directly into the database to check the status of Data Guard, and it was telling me that it was running okay. But in Enterprise Manager, it needed some more time to update the interface."
"You cannot use Enterprise Manager as replacement for a WebLogic console."
"The initial setup depends on your experience. For example, for people who are doing it for the first time, it's probably difficult."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control manages the monitoring and the graphs. Other tools complement the base monitoring. Zabbix is efficient with space pressure."
"No system works well."
"It is sometimes difficult to create configurations in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The cost of this solution is significant."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
"One has to pay for the enterprise version."
"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."
"The tool's pricing is competitive."
"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."
"The licensing costs are largely too high."
"it's neither expensive nor cheap."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."
"The solution's pricing is fine."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
10%
Construction Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
 

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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
The main use cases for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control include adding a new machine, making tuning adjustments, and monitoring databases.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge
Grupo Aeromexico SAB de CV, Grupo Arcor, Australian Finance Group Ltd., Cerner Corp., Bimbo S.A. de C.V., Kovaion Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., Shelf Drilling Ltd., Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL
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